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Re: Multilib and Linux.
- To: davem@redhat.com
- Subject: Re: Multilib and Linux.
- From: Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 22:57:59 +0100 (GMT)
- cc: law@cygnus.com, hjl@lucon.org, libc-hacker@cygnus.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, David Miller wrote:
> > 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
> for families which have both 32bit and 64bit cpus.
>
> I wonder how a Merced userland is going to work if we wish to allow
> people to still compile 32-bit x86 binaries, even though the
> instruction set is radically different between the two.
Merced running i386 binaries is still stricly emulation, I believe, so I'd
see that as cross-compilation, rather than multiple ABIs.
Matthew.