On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:37 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.to...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Joseph S. Myers
> <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>
>>> ; Maximum number of mask bits in a variable.
>>> MaxMaskBits
>>> ix86_isa_flags = 64
>>>
>>> It mark ix86_isa_flags as 64bit.  Any comments?
>>
>> The patch won't work as is.  set_option, for example, casts a pointer to
>> (int *), and stores a mask that came from option->var_value, which is an
>> int, so this won't work with option fields not of type int or values that
>> don't fit in int; you'd need to check all uses of CLVC_BIT_CLEAR and
>> CLVC_BIT_SET in the source tree to adapt things for the possibility of
>> wider mask fields, and track the type of each such field.
>
> We will prepare a separate patch.
>
>> Independently, I approve of setting need_64bit_hwint for all x86 targets,
>> but your patch doesn't achieve the expected simplification.  In
>> config.gcc, there are settings for various individual targets that should
>> be removed once it's set in one place for all x86 targets.  In
>> libcpp/configure.ac, similarly the cases for i[34567]86-*-darwin*
>> i[34567]86-*-solaris2.1[0-9]* x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*
>> i[34567]86-w64-mingw* i[34567]86-*-linux* (the last only if
>> --enable-targets=all) should all be removed as obsolete once
>> i[34567]86-*-* is there along with x86_64-*-*.
>>
>
> Is this patch OK for trunk?
>
> Thanks.
>
> H.J.
> ----
> gcc/
>
> 2011-07-27  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu...@intel.com>
>
>        * config.gcc: Set need_64bit_hwint to yes for x86 targets.
>
> libcpp/
>
> 2011-07-27  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu...@intel.com>
>
>        * configure.ac: Set need_64bit_hwint to yes for x86 targets.
>        * configure: Regenerated.
>

Bootstrapped on Linux/ia32.  I am checking it in.

Thanks.

-- 
H.J.

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