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Subject: Re: RFC: Add 32bit x86-64 support to binutils
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Robert Millan <rmh@gnu.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>, binutils@sourceware.org, 	gcc@gcc.gnu.org
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On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Robert Millan <rmh@gnu.org> wrote:
> 2010/12/30 H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>:
>> I also have a patch for gcc 4.4 which works on simple codes.
>>
>> H.J.
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:31 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>>> We do have a slightly more extensive patch already implemented.
>
> Could you make those patches available somewhere? =A0It'd be
> interesting to play with them.
>
> Btw, I recommend against 8-byte longs. =A0In the tests I did in
> 2009, I recall glibc source was extremely unhappy due to
> sizeof(long)=3D=3Dsizeof(void *) assumptions.
>

ILP32 psABI specifies 4byte for long.

--=20
H.J.