From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16531 invoked by alias); 28 May 2002 12:15:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16513 invoked from network); 28 May 2002 12:15:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kerberos.suse.cz) (195.47.106.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 May 2002 12:15:13 -0000 Received: from chimera.suse.cz (chimera.suse.cz [10.20.0.2]) by kerberos.suse.cz (SuSE SMTP server) with ESMTP id 93AD359D352; Tue, 28 May 2002 14:15:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from suse.cz (naga.suse.cz [10.20.1.16]) by chimera.suse.cz (8.11.0/8.11.0/SuSE Linux 8.11.0-0.4) with ESMTP id g4SCFCl04299; Tue, 28 May 2002 14:15:12 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: chimera.suse.cz: Host naga.suse.cz [10.20.1.16] claimed to be suse.cz Message-ID: <3CF374D0.1030709@suse.cz> Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 07:29:00 -0000 From: Michal Ludvig Organization: SuSE CR User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: cs, cz, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Kettenis Cc: GDB Patches Subject: Re: [RFA] Moving x86-64 configuration to separate directory References: <200205272200.g4RM0T400654@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00961.txt.bz2 Mark Kettenis wrote: > Michal Ludvig writes: >>I'm about to move all x86-64 configuration stuff to a separate >>directory. For now it resides in config/i386 but AFAIK this is a relict >>of cloning the the files from eachother, not the necessity. >>Yet more x86-64 is definitely a different architecture than i386 :-) > > Is it really? My understanding is that it is comparable to sparc > vs. sparc64. Isn't it possiblle to execute normal 32-bit i386 code on > the x86_64? In that case, you'd probably want to have a GDB that can > handle both. The only way to be able to accomplish that in the near > future is seeing them as different variants of the same architecture. I was told it isn't possible to have gdb supporting both x86-64 and i386 unless i386 is fully mutliarched. And after it is I don't need to treat them as different flavors of one arch, do I? > In that case you should leave the files where they are now. > Incidentally that's what GCC does. Michal Ludvig -- * SuSE CR, s.r.o * mludvig@suse.cz * +420 2 9654 5373 * http://www.suse.cz