From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12619 invoked by alias); 8 Nov 2004 23:37:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 12585 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2004 23:37:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iris1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de) (129.69.118.2) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 8 Nov 2004 23:37:37 -0000 Received: from rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de ([129.69.118.42]) by iris1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de with esmtp id 1CRJ4m-0006Py-00; Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:37:32 +0100 Received: from ica2_ts by rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CRJ4m-0007NW-00; Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:37:32 +0100 Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 23:46:00 -0000 To: James E Wilson Cc: Mark Kettenis , 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 Message-ID: <20041108233732.GH22577@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <200411071428.iA7ES7Fx003013@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <418FDD06.9030404@specifixinc.com> <200411082204.iA8M4jws088177@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <1099955006.7589.43.camel@aretha.corp.specifixinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1099955006.7589.43.camel@aretha.corp.specifixinc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i From: Thiemo Seufer X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00067.txt.bz2 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