On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 06:16:49PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > 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. > > But that old software wouldn't benefit as it didn't perform 64-bit > operations unless manually coded in software using narrower data types. > There is no 64-bit C data type for o32 and long long is quite a recent > invention -- it didn't exist in the 80s or even early 90s. Not in any standard but de facto in existence since a long time. Anyway, the changes in floating point in the N32 are so substancial that there are projects that say without N32 or N64 they don't even need to start working on their projects. Ralf
