On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote: > O64 may not be supported ABI, but it provides us with a feature that is really > usefull: > specifically, it generates 32 bit symbol addresses instead of 64 bit ones. > This cuts > down on code size considerably. If this feature was implemented in toolchain > as separate > switch, O64 hack could go away. Well, the topic has been beaten to death here, so you don't really need to illuminate me -- it's only due to this popular request I've implemented the ability to do 32-bit builds for 64-bit kernel. I just wonder why people insisting on such a setup don't actually contribute some code to do that cleanly and keep switching between hacks as they stop working one by one... > With that said, you are of course right - IP32 code and some drivers are > broken, because > they do rely on this feature in many places. Having a compiled tree in place these bugs are trivial to track down with "find", "objdump", "grep" and some usual shell script magic. Maciej
