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PATCH: Add x32 support to config.guess

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Sun Aug 19 09:07:00 GMT 2012 
On Saturday 18 August 2012 14:01:57 H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Saturday 18 August 2012 13:32:59 Mike Stump wrote:
> >> On Aug 18, 2012, at 6:52 AM, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > In case of x32, the only difference between x32 and x86-64 is
> >> > the default output of CC.  What do you recommend how to
> >> > detect x32?
> >> 
> >> So, is there a cpp symbol that is defined for code-gen?  If so,
> >> something like
> >> 
> >>   If [ $(gcc -x c /dev/null -dM -E | grep x32) = x32 ]; then fi
> >> 
> >> Would do it.
> > 
> > how is executing `gcc` any better than $CC_FOR_BUILD ?
> > 
> > your code suggestion here is pretty much what H.J. Lu is already doing.
> 
> There are 12 existing set_cc_for_build usages in config.guess.
> I don't think it is reasonable to require x32 not to use it without
> providing an alternative.  If you want to remove set_cc_for_build,
> one extra usage doesn't make it much harder to do.

(in case it wasn't clear, i'm in favor of H.J. Lu's patch)
-mike
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