Re: standard runtime for (possible/hopeful) 64bit kernels

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

"Toru Nishimura" wrote:

> > n32 is a 64-bit ABI - you _need_ a 64-bit integer MIPS III CPU or
> > greater (except of course MIPS32). 
> 
> Simon uses n32 nomenculture instead of writing N32.  It's a good
> practice, and I can provide here a bit of history.

A bit of history every now and then never hurts!

> Anyway, the invention of o64 sounds evil to me since it would make
> ABI issue worse.

Unfortunately, o64 has already been invented...  Our gcc and binutils
are able to generate o64 code (or at least were a couple of years ago).

Cheers,
Simon.