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Re: RFC: Add 32bit x86-64 support to binutils
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:48 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:42 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> On 12/30/2010 01:08 PM, Robert Millan wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I had this unsubmitted patch in my local filesystem. ?It makes Linux
>>> detect ELF32 AMD64 binaries and sets a flag to restrict them to
>>> 32-bit address space.
>>>
>>> It's not rocket science but can save you some work in case you
>>> haven't implemented this already.
>>>
>>
>> I have pushed my old kernel patches to a git tree at:
>>
>> git://git.kernel.org//pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-ilp32.git
>>
>> They are currently based on 2.6.31 since that was the released version
>> when I first did this work; they are not intended to be mergeble but
>> rather as a prototype.
>>
>> Note that we have no intention of supporting this ABI for the kernel
>> itself. ?The kernel will be a normal x86-64 kernel.
>>
>
> Here is the updated ILP32 patch for 2.6.35.
>
>
I put my ILP32 gdb on hjl/ilp32 branch at
http://git.kernel.org/?p=devel/gdb/hjl/x86.git;a=summary
and my gcc 4.4 ILP32 on hjl/ilp32/gcc-4_4-branch branch at
http://git.kernel.org/?p=devel/gcc/hjl/x86.git;a=summary
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H.J.