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Re: PATCH: Move sysdeps/x86_64/Implies to sysdeps/x86_64/64
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> wrote:
> On 03/22/12 15:07, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> There is no sysdeps/x86_64/x32/Implies. ?I'd like search order
>>
>> x86_64/x32
>> x86_64
>> x86_64/fpu
>> wordsize-32
>
> Incidentally, why do you want wordsize-32 at all?
>
> x32 has 64-bit registers, which (in gcc parlance at least) implies a
> 64-bit *word* size, and the desirability of all the optimizations that
> come with the ability to docomputation on that scale.
>
>
Since long != long long for x32, we need functions from
sysdeps/wordsize-32 and we can't use the version from
wordsize-64.
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H.J.