On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > OK as in "it works for me", and OK as in "this is the correct usage" are > > two different things. I believe that for a 64-bit kernel either -mabi=64 > > or -mabi=n32 (-mlong64) are the right long term answer, > > A third answer is to add a -msign-extend-addresses switch in the assembler. > Together with -mabi=64 this would produce optimized ELF64 output. Hmm, what do you exactly mean -- is that what I am worrying about? > > part of Daniel's > > problem was that his bootloader couldn't deal with ELF64. > > Well, implementing an ELF64 bootloader ins't that hard. :-) That depends on how hard it's to replace some firmware. Using a secondary boot loader is not always feasible, either. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
