Re: IP32 - issues with last CVS snapshoot

["Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh" <ilya@total-knowledge.com>]

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
>
>  
>
> > O64 may not be supported ABI, but it provides us with a feature that is really
> > usefull:
> > specifically, it generates 32 bit symbol addresses instead of 64 bit ones.
> > This cuts
> > down on code size considerably. If this feature was implemented in toolchain
> > as separate
> > switch, O64 hack could go away.
> >    
> Well, the topic has been beaten to death here, so you don't really need 
> to illuminate me -- it's only due to this popular request I've implemented 
> the ability to do 32-bit builds for 64-bit kernel.
I know

>  I just wonder why 
> people insisting on such a setup don't actually contribute some code to do 
> that cleanly and keep switching between hacks as they stop working one by 
> one...
>  
Because they hope that if they annoy you enough, you'll do it yourself ;-)


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