[PATCH] biarch support for i386-mingw32

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 08:45:16AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Robert Millan<rmh@aybabtu.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Kai,
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:27:23AM +0200, Kai Tietz wrote:
> >>
> >> This approac seems to be wrong. It makes no sense to change emulation
> >> for i386 pr-coff targets. This would break i386 default.
> >
> > I tested i386-mingw32 and it continues to work. Â Can you be more specific?
> >
> >> Instead of your patch you should configure options to enable biarch
> >> for binutils here.
> >> At typical multilib version based on i386-*-mingw* can be configured as:
> >> "../configure --prefix=<prefix-dir> --with-sysroot=<prefix-dir>
> >> --target=i686-w64-mingw32
> >> --enable-targets=i686-w64-mingw32,x86_64-w64-mingw32 "
> >>
> >> For me this works pretty well and testsuite run works, too.
> >
> > This works for ld, but then "as --64" won't work. Â My goal is to setup a
> > biarch toolchain, which will later need some adjustments in gcc so that
> > "i586-mingw32msvc-gcc -m64" works.
> >
> 
> Which version of binutils are you using?

My bad, it seems that I was stuck in the past.  Sorry for bothering.

Btw, does the same (or a similar) approach work for gcc?

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