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Date:	Thu, 3 Dec 2015 11:31:58 +0000
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc:	arnd@...db.de, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pinskia@...il.com,
	Prasun.Kapoor@...iumnetworks.com, schwab@...e.de,
	Nathan_Lynch@...tor.com, agraf@...e.de, klimov.linux@...il.com,
	broonie@...nel.org, jan.dakinevich@...il.com,
	ddaney.cavm@...il.com, bamvor.zhangjian@...wei.com,
	philipp.tomsich@...obroma-systems.com, andrey.konovalov@...aro.org,
	joseph@...esourcery.com, christoph.muellner@...obroma-systems.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 05/19] arm64:uapi: set __BITS_PER_LONG correctly for
 ILP32 and LP64

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:16:45AM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h
> index fce9c29..4265243 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h
> @@ -16,7 +16,14 @@
>  #ifndef __ASM_BITSPERLONG_H
>  #define __ASM_BITSPERLONG_H
>  
> -#define __BITS_PER_LONG 64
> +#if defined(__LP64__)
> +/* Assuming __LP64__ will be defined for native ELF64's and not for ILP32. */
> +#  define __BITS_PER_LONG 64
> +#elif defined(__ILP32__)
> +#  define __BITS_PER_LONG 32
> +#else
> +#  error "Neither LP64 nor ILP32: unsupported ABI in asm/bitsperlong.h"
> +#endif

Quick question: IIRC, earlier aarch64 gcc versions did not generate
__ILP32__ when -mabi=ilp32, they only removed __LP64__. When did the
change happen? Could we assume that all compiler versions used to
generate ILP32 would define this?

-- 
Catalin
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