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From: Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
To: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: RFC: A new MIPS64 ABI
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:45:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <4D5990A4.2050308__41923.1521235362$1297715435$gmane$org@caviumnetworks.com>	(David Daney's message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:29:24 -0800")
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David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> writes:
> Background:
>
> Current MIPS 32-bit ABIs (both o32 and n32) are restricted to 2GB of
> user virtual memory space.  This is due the way MIPS32 memory space is
> segmented.  Only the range from 0..2^31-1 is available.  Pointer
> values are always sign extended.
>
> Because there are not already enough MIPS ABIs, I present the ...
>
> Proposal: A new ABI to support 4GB of address space with 32-bit
> pointers.

FWIW, I'd be happy to see this go into GCC.

Richard