Re: [PATCH] biarch support for i386-mingw32

[Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu dot com>]

Hi Kai,

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:27:23AM +0200, Kai Tietz wrote:
> 
> This approach seems to be wrong. It makes no sense to change emulation
> for i386 pr-coff targets. This would break i386 default.

I tested i386-mingw32 and it continues to work.  Can you be more specific?

> Instead of your patch you should configure options to enable biarch
> for binutils here.
> At typical multilib version based on i386-*-mingw* can be configured as:
> "../configure --prefix=<prefix-dir> --with-sysroot=<prefix-dir>
> --target=i686-w64-mingw32
> --enable-targets=i686-w64-mingw32,x86_64-w64-mingw32 "
> 
> For me this works pretty well and testsuite run works, too.

This works for ld, but then "as --64" won't work.  My goal is to setup a
biarch toolchain, which will later need some adjustments in gcc so that
"i586-mingw32msvc-gcc -m64" works.

Is there a better way to archieve that?

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