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From: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: James E Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com>
Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>,
	echristo@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org,
	binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Mixing 32-bit and 64-bit DWARF2/3 sections
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 23:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041108233732.GH22577@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1099955006.7589.43.camel@aretha.corp.specifixinc.com>

James E Wilson wrote:
[snip]
> Besides the technical details, you will also need to get political buy
> in from affected parties for an ABI change, which means mainly the
> GNU/Linux mips64 folks.

FWIW, I doubt going back unconditionally to a 32bit format is the right
thing to do for a fully 64bit ABI. Applications tend to grow further,
as does the accompanying debug info, so the 32bit limit comes closer.


Thiemo

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-08 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-07 15:31 Mark Kettenis
2004-11-07 16:29 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-11-07 17:16   ` Mark Kettenis
2004-11-08  0:19     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-11-08 21:44 ` James E Wilson
2004-11-08 23:03   ` Mark Kettenis
2004-11-08 23:37     ` James E Wilson
2004-11-08 23:46       ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]
2004-11-08 23:55         ` Daniel Berlin
2004-11-09  0:15         ` James E Wilson
2004-11-08 23:50   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-11-09  0:29     ` James E Wilson
2004-11-09 20:58 ` Dean Luick
2004-11-09 22:10 David Anderson

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