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Re: Multilib and Linux.
- To: law@cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: Multilib and Linux.
- From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:34:42 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
>
> There's nothing I'm aware of which would prevent us from building any
> particular set of multilibs we need.
Nothing. It is just the trouble we have to go through to build
a complete Linux distribution with full multilib support. I am
not sure if it is worth it.
>
> Knowing why you think we need multilibs would also be helpful.
>
For example, we have 2 ABIs on Linux/Sparc64, 32bit and 64bit.
There are more like that. For one thing, I'd like people to use
the 64bit ABI on 64bit machines.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)