On Wed, 14 May 2003, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > Well, "32" is 32-bit address/data and "64" is 64-bit address/data. > > That's essentially pure 32-bit and 64-bit, respectively. Of course some > > data format has to be emitted by tools, so there has to be an ABI > > associated with each of these variants. > > That's just backwards. An ABI defines much more, e.g. calling > conventions and GOT sizes. The register size is just another > property of the ABI. OK -- maybe I am biased because there is only a single ABI for 32-bit and 64-bit binaries each. So please just forget it. > What's desireable here depends on the target system. For Linux, > the current way is IMHO the best: o32 only for mips-linux, and > o32, n32 and n64 for mips64-linux, with n32 as default. Of course the choice of the default should be configurable (for binutils it probably already is -- I recall Richard Sandiford making changes in this area, for gcc -- no idea). -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
