On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:22:19PM +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On debian lenny I'm playing with GCC trunk (4.4) to build a tri-ABI
> compiler on a lemote netbook (running gnewsense kernel and lenny
> userspace).
>
> My understanding is that lenny userspace is -mabi=32 (o32) and
> GCC and libc support abi=32,n32,64, the kernel being 64.
>
> n32 seems to be more performant than 32, do you know why
> it is not used by default? Is it unsupported on some hardware?
Unsupported on R3k/R2k which used to be release targets pre-lenny -
Decstation 5000 and Co.
Flo
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