Re: -mcpu vs. binutils 2.13.90.0.18

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Guido Guenther wrote:

> Looking at gcc-3.3:
> 
> #define ABI_32  0
> #define ABI_N32 1
> #define ABI_64  2
> #define ABI_EABI 3
> #define ABI_O64  4
> 
> The naming is very "unfortunate", though. We have (n32,64) and (32,o64).
> Wouldn't it help to at least allow for n64 and o32 commandline options?
> -mabi=32 and -mabi=64 will have to be kept for Irix compatibility
> though, I think.

 Why unfortunate?  You use "32" and "64" for normal stuff, and the rest
for special cases ("n32" isn't really 32-bit and "o64" isn't really 64-bit
-- both lie in the middle).  Additional aliases of the "n64" and "o32"
form would make more confusion, IMHO. 

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