From owner-freebsd-arch Tue May 7 13:13:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA7D737B408 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 13:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g47KDFev029682; Tue, 7 May 2002 13:13:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g47KDEvv029681; Tue, 7 May 2002 13:13:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 13:13:14 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Matthew Dillon Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syscall changes to deal with 32->64 changes. Message-ID: <20020507131314.B29014@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: arch@freebsd.org References: <200205071940.g47Jehl84130@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200205071940.g47Jehl84130@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:40:43PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:40:43PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > the way for us to allow natively compiled multi-architectural support. > e.g. consider this: > > cc -ABI4 ... > cc -ABI5 ... > cc -ABILinux ... > cc -ABIOpenBSD ... Honestly, why do we have this need? It seems to fall into the "it would be nice"; but seldomly used. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message