On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:56:36PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:16:04AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > 1. For a bi-arch compiler for which 32-bit code is the default, we no
> >    longer need to override ASM_SPEC.
> 
> Well, this is the only way this patch applies, because...
> 
> > 2. We get earlier failure and better error messages from the assembler
> >    if the user tries to use a 64-bit compiler with a 32-bit assembler.
> 
> ... this one isn't true.  You won't get "--64" emitted from just
> "gcc z.c", only from "gcc -m64 z.c".  Unless I'm missing something?

Right, I assume Mark meant "if you try to use foo-gcc -m64 with a
32-bit assembler".

> That said, I guess I don't have a problem with this patch.

How would you feel about a patch that made us always pass --64
as appropriate, at least if the assembler in question is gas?  I
periodically bootstrap on a 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit root FS.  But
the assembler and linker are biarch, and the 64-bit libs are installed,
so it's just the defaults that are wrong.  If we were explicit, an
x86_64-linux compiler would Just Work.

Which would be nice since that's what config.guess says to build :-)

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

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