On 21-08-2012 17:04, Dan McGregor wrote: > My solution is certainly fairly hacky, I just took inspiration from > NetBSD. I wanted to see if it could be done. While I was there I did > identify several files that should be common between i386 and amd64, > such as exec.h. > > Since reading your email I started looking at the x86 common code, > and have made some more code common; specifically asm.h ans > ucontext.h. I'll be putting that on github shortly. > > Since it does look like tijl hasn't committed anything since March, > I would like to co-operate and see what his plans were. The idea of > merging the i386 and amd64 headers into a common area seems like a > better idea to me.
For now my goal was to merge headers that can be used by user code so it can be compiled with -m32. Eventually, I think it would be nice to merge all headers and install x86/ as machine/ for both i386 and amd64. That would make the x86 headers similar to powerpc and mips headers (and arm when 64bit support is added there). I think I still have one or two (untested) patches. I'll have a look at it during the weekend.
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