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Re: Port to x86-64
Jiri Smid wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> 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