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Re: [RFA] Moving x86-64 configuration to separate directory
- From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at chello dot nl>
- To: Michal Ludvig <mludvig at suse dot cz>
- Cc: GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 27 May 2002 18:59:15 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Moving x86-64 configuration to separate directory
Michal Ludvig <mludvig@suse.cz> writes:
> Hi,
> I'm about to move all x86-64 configuration stuff to a separate
> directory. For now it resides in config/i386 but AFAIK this is a relict
> of cloning the the files from eachother, not the necessity.
> Yet more x86-64 is definitely a different architecture than i386 :-)
Is it really? My understanding is that it is comparable to sparc
vs. sparc64. Isn't it possiblle to execute normal 32-bit i386 code on
the x86_64? In that case, you'd probably want to have a GDB that can
handle both. The only way to be able to accomplish that in the near
future is seeing them as different variants of the same architecture.
In that case you should leave the files where they are now.
Incidentally that's what GCC does.
If you want these targets to become really seperate, we should
consider doing a repository copy of the files to preserve their
history.
Mark