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