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Re: RFC: Add 32bit x86-64 support to binutils


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? ?It'd be
> interesting to play with them.
>
> Btw, I recommend against 8-byte longs. ?In the tests I did in
> 2009, I recall glibc source was extremely unhappy due to
> sizeof(long)==sizeof(void *) assumptions.
>

ILP32 psABI specifies 4byte for long.

-- 
H.J.


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