On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Thomas Koeller wrote: > for 2.6 kernels, arch/mips/Makefile contains the following lines: > > ifdef CONFIG_MIPS64 > gcc-abi = 64 > gas-abi = 32 > tool-prefix = $(64bit-tool-prefix) > UTS_MACHINE := mips64 > endif > > Is it intentional that gcc-abi and gas-abi are different? This It is -- some people want to use 32-bit pointers within Linux, to conserve memory. It seems to work with older tools, but I've never tried that. > results in '-Wa,-32' appearing on gcc's command line, causing > the asembler to complain: > > Error: -mgp64 used with a 32-bit ABI > > If I change gas-abi to 64, this error goes away. You may run `make "gas-abi=64" <whatever>' as a workaround. I'm going to make it selectable in the configuration one day. Maciej
