On Wed, 14 May 2003, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Well, "32" is 32-bit address/data and "64" is 64-bit address/data.
> > That's essentially pure 32-bit and 64-bit, respectively. Of course some
> > data format has to be emitted by tools, so there has to be an ABI
> > associated with each of these variants.
>
> That's just backwards. An ABI defines much more, e.g. calling
> conventions and GOT sizes. The register size is just another
> property of the ABI.
OK -- maybe I am biased because there is only a single ABI for 32-bit and
64-bit binaries each. So please just forget it.
> What's desireable here depends on the target system. For Linux,
> the current way is IMHO the best: o32 only for mips-linux, and
> o32, n32 and n64 for mips64-linux, with n32 as default.
Of course the choice of the default should be configurable (for binutils
it probably already is -- I recall Richard Sandiford making changes in
this area, for gcc -- no idea).
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