From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: echristo@redhat.com
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] Update OpenBSD/mips64 support
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200504132248.j3DMmU9A016212@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1113431956.4591.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> (message from Eric Christopher on Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:39:16 -0700)
From: Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:39:16 -0700
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 00:37 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> From: Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:30:53 -0700
>
> > + mips64*-openbsd*)
> > + mips_default_abi=N64_ABI
> > + ;;
>
> Not n32?
>
> Nope. OpenBSD/sgi is fully 64-bit. Don't think it even can execute
> 32-bit code.
n32 is 32-bit pointers and 64-bit registers. 64-bit registers are
required. It's also a heck of a lot faster than n64 :)
And a bit of a security nightmare if you have a 64-bit kernel...
That's why OpenBSD doesn't do it that way. It's a deliberate choice ;-).
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-13 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-13 22:14 Mark Kettenis
2005-04-13 22:30 ` Eric Christopher
2005-04-13 22:37 ` Mark Kettenis
2005-04-13 22:39 ` Eric Christopher
2005-04-13 22:48 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2005-04-13 22:51 ` Eric Christopher
2005-04-14 10:42 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-04-14 1:24 ` Richard Henderson
2005-04-14 10:44 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-04-13 22:35 ` Thiemo Seufer
2005-04-13 22:45 ` Mark Kettenis
2005-04-13 23:34 ` Thiemo Seufer
2005-04-14 17:04 ` Mark Kettenis
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