Re: [gentoo-mips] Re: On MIPS using the same CHOST for all multilib ABIs

[sébastien bertoletto]

Hello,

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Thanks,


2013/12/30 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>

> On Sunday 29 December 2013 18:56:14 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > so to turn your base argument around, we shouldn't be limiting Gentoo to
> > only support CHOSTs that also select ABIs uniquely.
>
> also worth noting: we've been severely limiting ourselves as to the full
> range
> of possibilities.  when we say "ABI", we've largely been focusing on the
> most
> common aspect.  in reality, an ABI is defined by many more features like:
>  - endian (little/big)
>  - floating point (hard/soft/etc...)
>  - ISA selection (mips1/mips2/mips3/mips4/... or i386/i486/i586/i686/... or
> sse1/sse2/mmx/3dnow!/...)
> there are other aspects too, but these are the obvious ones that people are
> selecting every day.  people have one toolchain which can generate code for
> all of these things merely by flag selection, not different CHOST values.
>  in
> Gentoo we don't commonly support this as most people don't care, but it has
> been done before.
> -mike
>



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Sébastien Bertoletto