Re: recent binutils and mips64-linux

[Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 14:27, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I'm sure this has been discussed already...
> 
> The Linux kernel currently uses among other things, -Wa,-32,-mgp64.  The
> point is to use 32-bit ELF and 64-bit instructions.  But nowadays binutils
> requires that the ABI explicitly match the width of GP registers.
> 
> Can gas still do ELF32 in with 64-bit registers?  If so, what the heck is
> the command-line magic?

Discussed on irc :)

mips-linux-gcc -mabi=32 -march=64bitarch is my suggestion.

otherwise, -mabi=o64 is o32 extended to 64-bit registers.

-eric

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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>