RFC: Add 32bit x86-64 support to binutils

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/30/2010 11:57 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>
>> Would be nice if LFS would be mandatory on the new ABI, thus
>> off_t being 64bits.
> 
> And avoid ambiguous cases that x86-64 ABI has, e.g. whether
> caller or callee is responsible for sign/zero extension of arguments, to
> avoid the need to sign/zero extend twice, etc.
> 

Ehwhat?  x86-64 is completely unambiguous on that point; the i386 one is
not.

	-hpa

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