[Ecls-list] Patch: Athlon 64s weren't getting :DFFI and FP exception detection

[Donavon Keithley]

I looked into this a bit.  On a system like mine, 'uname -m' returns "i686" 
whereas under a 64-bit personality it would report "x86_64".

Lots of good info here:

http://gcc.fyxm.net/summit/2003/Porting%20to%2064%20bit.pdf

Donavon


On Wednesday 10 January 2007 06:36, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
> 2007/1/10, Donavon Keithley <keithley at easystreet.com>:
> > Sorry, to clarify, I'm running a 32-bit Linux distro on an Athlon 64.  So
> > while my host_cpu is "x86_64", I'm building elf32 binaries.
>
> Hmm, then one should definitely find out what flags a 64 bit operating
> system adds to the output of "uname". Otherwise we are going to run
> into trouble when I commit the patch for 64bits DFFI this weekend.
>
> Juanjo
>
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