Andrew Pinski <pins...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Richard Sandiford > <rdsandif...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> One of the more unfortunate things MIPS has inherited is an LP64 ABI >> that uses 32-bit rather than 64-bit ELF. I've no idea how many people >> use it these days (if anyone), but it happens to the ABI of the MIPS >> primary target, mipsisa64-elf. > > We (Cavium) use the EABI-64 ABI for our simple-exec (bare-metal) > target so there is an user base out there now.
Thanks, that's good to know. I'm never entirely sure how things are being used, so this sort of information definitely helps. I also realised that it's no different from -msym32 -mabi=64, which is the standard way of building many 64-bit linux kernels, so my negative comments above were just plain wrong. Richard
