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Re: RFC & patch: Rework MIPS command-line handling
Eric Christopher wrote:
[snip]
> > > 3. Add eabi32, eabi64, meabi32 and meabi64 to -mabi. You get
> > > the 32-bit version unless you use -mabi=eabi64.
> >
> > I would prefer the third option. At least it makes explicit
> > what's going on and does not interfere with other ABIs.
>
> It _does_ make it explicit, however, there aren't really two different
> ABIs...
Err, different register sizes make the binary interfaces incompatible.
If this is the same ABI nevertheless, what ABIs would you call
different then?
Thiemo