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Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Enable NewABI testing for all Linux targets
On Sat, 4 Aug 2012, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> >> That's just for the record though. The OK still stands.
So I have committed this change now, thanks for your review. I'll think
of something cleverer in place of this -march=from-abi option as time
permits; fortunately it's greppable, so easily replaced.
> > Can you comment on my concerns about config.bfd too?
>
> Not including the targets in the BFD64 block at the time that the
> extra vectors were added was probably an oversight.
I've been wondering if these extra vectors were added by mistake instead,
like slipped through in a larger commit unnoticed. I'll post a fix to the
BFD64 block separately.
> Providing a separate configuration that isn't BFD64 and doesn't have the
> extra vectors seems more trouble than it's worth TBH. If you disagree
> though, please go ahead.
My understanding is it only really matters for hosts that do not have a
64-bit integer type and therefore cannot handle 64-bit quantities. In
which case I couldn't care less, GCC has supported 64-bit long long on
32-bit hosts since time immemorial and the last teething problems in this
area I seem to remember went away in late 1990s.
Maciej