Multilib and Linux.

H.J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Tue Apr 20 11:19:00 GMT 1999


> 
>   > For example, we have 2 ABIs on Linux/Sparc64, 32bit and 64bit.
>   > There are more like that. For one thing, I'd like people to use
>   > the 64bit ABI on 64bit machines.
> I thought you were referring to x86 machines.    It's certainly an issue

No.

> for families which have both 32bit and 64bit cpus.
> 

We have at least 2 CPU families with both 32bit and 64bit ABIs today
for Linux and more on the way. I'd like to have a common Linux soluton
for all of them if possible. Anything we do can may affect egcs, glibc
and binutils.


-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)



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