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Re: bfd questions.
- From: "Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky at de dot ibm dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:15:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: bfd questions.
Hi Nick,
>> For the bi-arch s390/s390x support I'd like to change the two s390
>> bfds in some aspects. 1) The printable_name for 31 bit is "s390:390"
>> and for 64 bit it is "s390:esame". Both pretty meaningless,
>> "s390:31" and "s390:64" would be better.
>
>or maybe "s390:31-bit" and s390:64-bit" ?
Even better.
>> 3) Add the switches -m31 and -m64 to switch to 31 bit or 64 bit.
>
>Err, add the switches to where ? GAS ?
Yes, this switch and the -A{esa,esame} switch would be added to gas.
>Presumably then you would generate a warning if -m64 and -Aesa were
>used together, or is there an advantage to having 64 bit binaries that
>do not support the ESAME instructions ?
It doesn't make too much sense to use -m64 and -Aesa so a warning would
be appropriate.
>> Is there anything that would speak against there changes ?
>
>Not from me.
That leaves the objections from Andrew Cagney.
blue skies,
Martin
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