From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cagney To: Jiri Smid Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Port to x86-64 Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 12:23:00 -0000 Message-id: <3ACE17BB.1D2BA022@cygnus.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-04/msg00056.html Jiri Smid wrote: > > Hi, > > Andreas Jaeger writes: > > > > > > > o submit the configury mess early > > > > > > even if you don't have real code > > > could I suggest thinking about > > > separating this out so that > > > you can get on with the real > > > work. > > > > > Before I will submit the configury mess I would like to little discuss > about it. > The generic name of CPU is x86_64 in already ported software. It seems > that there shoud be create new config directory gdb/config/x86_64. But > this processor is extended i386 architecture and many parts of code will > be the same as in i386. > I think that the best solution is to create this new config directory > x86_64 and from tm-x86_64.h include i386/tm-i386.h and redefine some > declarations. What do you think? What convention, if any, was adopted by GCC and what do config.guess / config.sub return? I suspect that ``x86-64'' is going to be more acceptable than x86_64 a file name. Andrew