On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 05:10:51PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > No - the point is that all data types have the same size in N32. It > > was created explicitly as a transitional sop for people who didn't want > > to fix their code, but wanted a performance increase from their 64-bit > > hardware. > > Well, what's the performance increase of n32 over o32? The increased > number of argument registers? I doubt it's noticeable in most cases. N32 supports saving and restoring 64-bit registers, which O32 doesn't - according to some comments in GCC, O32 is in fact incompatible with using 64-bit operations. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
