[PATCH] set mpi limb for all amd64 targets

[Werner Koch]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 02:30, vapier at gentoo.org said:

> no idea what you mean.  all the mainline toolchain packages support it
> now as does the kernel.

Search for x32 on LWN to see what I mean.  IIRC, the x32 ABI was
specified by Intel for use on certain embedded systems.  It is
questionable there are any benefits for standard 84 bit CPUs.

> it doesn't have a unique one: x86_64-linux-gnu

Which defines the amd64 ABI and not the x32.  That ABI means that an
LONG is 64 bit and not 32.  As I said it will likely work to define the
MPI limb size to 64 bit instead of directly to "unsigned long".  However
we are mixing two ABIs here which is not a good idea unless it can be
proofed that there are no problems.  And as you reported there are
problems mixing the two ABIs.

What about using "./configure --disable-asm" as a workaround?


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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