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Re: [PATCH] Recognize aarch64_ilp32
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Earnie |
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Re: [PATCH] Recognize aarch64_ilp32 |
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Tue, 6 Dec 2016 09:01:32 -0500 |
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On 12/6/2016 4:34 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Dez 06 2016, Ben Elliston <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 09:17:50AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
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>>>>> So what's the replacement?
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>>>> Using system tools to discover the ABI.
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>>> ??? That's what I did.
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>> Sorry, I meant "standard system tools" that can reasonably be expected
>> to be installed. Many systems do not have a C compiler installed.
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> How can you build software without a compiler???
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He didn't say they didn't have a compiler, he said "do not have a *C*
compiler". The purpose of config.guess and config.sub is to identify a
default system and give an identifiable triplet string. A compiler
shouldn't need to be used to do that.
>> They can, however, be expected to have the GNU coreutils.
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> That is useless.
How?
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Earnie