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Re: [PATCH/RFA] Add elf64_{big,little}mips to mips*-*-netbsd*
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:20:38AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > (1) I always want to include elf64_{big,little}mips support in
> > the NetBSD MIPS config. It looks like if I put it in
> > targ64_selvecs, I would need to explicitly set want64=true
> > to achieve this.
>
> --enable-64-bit-bfd does this. If you include 64 bit targets into
> "targ_selvecs" this happens implicitly, which means the toolchain
> will always build with BFD64.
Right. The point is that I *always* want the elf64 mips stuff for
NetBSD MIPS configurations. Not just when building on a host that
happens to be 64-bit. And the right thing (i.e. "include elf64
support") should happen without having to specify --enable-64-bit-bfd
on a 32-bit host which is capable of building that code.
> > (2) The patch I submitted is consistent with other MIPS
> > configurations.
>
> I have a patch here to change this in order to re-allow MIPS
> toolchains for targets without 64 bit (compiler) integer.
It seems like the real bug is that there is not a sufficient autoconf
check for 64-bit support in the host's compiler. (If the host's compiler
can do it, BFD64 should always be defined, IMO.)
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>