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Re: Can we have elf64_sparc on sparc-*-linux-gnu*?
On Dec 9, 1999, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 04:51:15PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> If I build binutils with sparc64-*-linux-gnu*, it will produce 64bit
>> code by default, and gcc will only tell ld to generate elf32_sparc; no
>> -32 flag is passed to gas, so it will generate elf64_sparc object
>> files, and ld will complain about them.
> Strange. gcc should always pass -32/-64 flags to gas, at least if you don't
> use ancient version. I've just checked egcs 1.1.2 in rh6.1 and it has -32
> and -m elf32_sparc everywhere in the specs.
This must be a RH hack, that was never contributed to gcc, which was
probably deemed necessary because you ship RH6.1 with a 32/64
binutils. GCC up to the current CVS version only passes -m
elf32_sparc to the linker, but not -32 to the assembler.
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