* Andrea Bolognani:

> Wouldn't changing -mabi effectively make the result a new Fedora
> architecture? IIUC, binaries built with -mabi=lp64d wouldn't be able
> to load libraries built with -mabi=lp64dv and vice versa.
>
> If that's correct, then we can't simply have a single "riscv64"
> architecture: instead, we need to call what we have today
> riscv64_lp64d, and be ready for riscv64_lp64dv as well as whatever
> comes next.

Right.

> It would be somewhat similar to existing architectures that can be
> used in both Little-Endian (ppc64le) and Big-Endian (ppc64) modes.

With different paths, it would be more like i686 and x86_64.  That is,
you can build and run software for both variants from the same operating
system image.  That's not the case for ppc64 and ppc64le.

> This is quite different from just bumping the ISA baseline, where
> existing binaries and libraries are still usable in the new
> environment.

Right, changing the vector calling convention may change the size of
jmp_buf, and then you have a new ABI even if use of the vector features
is optional.

Thanks,
Florian
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