PING [discuss] [x86-64 psABI] RFC: Extend x86-64 psABI to support x32
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H.J. Lu
Dec 4, 2012, 1:31:59 PM12/4/12
to Michael Matz, H. Peter Anvin, dis...@x86-64.org, GNU C Library, GCC Development, GDB, x32...@googlegroups.com, Binutils
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:50 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Michael Matz <ma...@suse.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, 14 May 2012, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>
>>> > As a minor nitpick, I have always used x32 with a lower case x. The
>>> > capital X32 looks odd to me.
>>> >
>>>
>>> I used X32 together with LP64. I can use ILP32 instead of X32 when LP64
>>> is mentioned at the same time.
>>
>> I'd prefer that. x32 is a nice short-hand name for the whole thing, but
>> not descriptive, unlike LP64. So, yes, IMO it should be ILP32 in the ABI
>> document.
>>
>
> Here is the updated change. Any comments?
>
> Thanks.
>
PING.
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H.J.
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Michael Matz <ma...@suse.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, 14 May 2012, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>
>>> > As a minor nitpick, I have always used x32 with a lower case x. The
>>> > capital X32 looks odd to me.
>>> >
>>>
>>> I used X32 together with LP64. I can use ILP32 instead of X32 when LP64
>>> is mentioned at the same time.
>>
>> I'd prefer that. x32 is a nice short-hand name for the whole thing, but
>> not descriptive, unlike LP64. So, yes, IMO it should be ILP32 in the ABI
>> document.
>>
>
> Here is the updated change. Any comments?
>
> Thanks.
>
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H.J.
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