Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
>
> > > > If the intention is to use mfc0 for 32bit kernels and dmfc0 for 64bit,
> > > > the check should probably be
> > > >
> > > > #ifdef __mips64
> > > > # define MFC0 dmfc0
> > > > # define MTC0 dmtc0
> > > > #else
> > > > # define MFC0 mfc0
> > > > # define MTC0 mtc0
> > > > #endif
> > >
> > > I'd go for CONFIG_MIPS64 here.
> >
> > This would work as well, but I prefer compiler intrinsic defines
> > over custom configury.
>
> Well, for Linux it seems appropriate to use a kernel's configuration to
> select run-time behaviour -- in this case it's CONFIG_MIPS64 that was
> selected by a user that matters (i.e. that we use 64-bit addressing) and
> not a compiler's configuration. Just the opposite to what's expected in
> the userland.
JFTR:
__mips64 denotes neither 64-bit addressing nor the compiler configuration.
It just means that the generated code uses 64 bit wide registers.
Thiemo
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