Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:37:18 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> To: juli mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Steffen M. Boelaars" <boelaars@graphicscave.com> Subject: Re: Some MIPS status goodies. Message-ID: <20040610123718.GA32315@linux-mips.org> In-Reply-To: <20040610101801.GA75709@FreeBSD.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0406101040240.2858-100000@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de> <20040610090712.GA71925@FreeBSD.org> <4038.217.68.50.10.1086861511.squirrel@webmail.dataloss.nl> <20040610101801.GA75709@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:18:01AM -1000, juli mallett wrote: > Right now I gotta say that Elf64-requiring systems are out. I can't > get the toolchain to behave enough. Once I can get loader going, I > can probably deal with the pain a lot more easily, because we can > just default to Elf64 and make Elf32 a second-class citizen. 64-bit ELF requires very recent GNU tools and even in those it cannot be considered of prime quality. 64-bit code is so much larger that it often delivers just half the performance of 32-bit code. Ralf
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