On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > My opinion is that N32 is good enough for people who are short on > space. We have too many MIPS ABIs already! You meant "there are", I suppose, as we (i.e. Linux) only really have a single one right now -- o32. And my opinion is we should carefully choose additional ABIs for the 64-bit port based on technical superiority and flexibility and do not blindly follow what others do. To achieve this, we do not even need to fiddle with the toolchain -- ELF file formats are sufficient, binutils don't care and gcc may be set up as needed in a configuration header. All that matters is the kernel and libc. That said, I do not assert my address/data model propsal is optimal -- this is subject to a discussion, but please keep non-technical arguments away. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
