Re: new triplet for x32 psABI?

[H.J. Lu]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Michael LIAO <address@hidden> wrote:
> Most examples would be related to tools generating code.
>
> Suppose you have a software package with several hard-coded fully
> optimized assembly file for different targets. Your build system need
> to know the current target as well as target ABI to select the correct
> assembly file to build it. It even desirable if it includes a simple
> script to help generate assembly code (like the one in OpenSSL), you'd
> better know the target ABI to prepare proper glue code without
> breaking ABI.
>

X32 assembly codes are very close to x86-64 ones. In come cases,
they are 100% compatible.

In kernel, x32 vDSO is built from the x86-64 .o files for x86-64 vDSO.
In gmp, you can assemble x86-64 assembly codes directly into x32
object files.  Adding x32 target triplet may not be necessarily helpful.


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H.J.