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| -Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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| -
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| -This file is part of the GNU MP Library.
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| -
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| -The GNU MP Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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| -it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
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| -the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your
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| -option) any later version.
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| -
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| -The GNU MP Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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| -WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
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| -or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public
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| -License for more details.
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| -
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| -You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
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| -along with the GNU MP Library. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
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| -Terms Used In This Document:
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| - ISA = Instruction Set Architecture. The instructions the current
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| - processor provides.
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| - ABI = Application Binary Interface. Specifies calling convention,
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| - type sizes, etc.
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| - AR64 = Arithmetic operations are 64-bit using 64-bit instructions
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| - (E.g., addition, subtraction, load, store, of 64-bit integer types
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| - are done with single instructions, not 32 bits at a time.)
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| - Environment = The operating system and compiler.
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| -
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| -GMP is a very complex package to build since its speed is very
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| -sensitive to the ISA and ABI. For example, if the ISA provides 64-bit
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| -instructions, it is crucial that GMP is configured to use them.
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| -
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| -Most environments that run on a 64-bit ISA provide more than one ABI.
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| -Typically one of the supported ABI's is a backward compatible 32-bit
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| -ABI, and one ABI provides 64-bit addressing and `long' (sometimes
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| -known as LP64). But a few environments (IRIX, HP-UX) provide
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| -intermediate ABI's using 32-bit addressing but allow efficient 64-bit
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| -operations through a `long long' type. For the latter to be useful to
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| -GMP, the ABI must allow operations using the native 64-bit
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| -instructions provided by the ISA, and allow passing of 64-bit
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| -quantities atomically.
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| -
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| -The ABI is typically chosen by means of command line options to the
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| -compiler tools (gcc, cc, c89, nm, ar, ld, as). Different environments
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| -use different defaults, but as of this writing (May 2000) the
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| -dominating default is to the plain 32-bit ABI in its most arcane form.
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| -
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| -The GMP 3.0.x approach was to compile using the ABI that gives the
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| -best performance. That places the burden on users to pass special
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| -options to the compiler when they compile their GMP applications.
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| -That approach has its advantages and disadvantages. The main
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| -advantage is that users don't unknowingly get bad GMP performance.
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| -The main disadvantage is that users' compiles (actually links) will
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| -fail unless they pass special compiler options.
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| -
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| -** SPARC
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| -System vendors often confuse ABI, ISA, and implementation. The worst
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| -case is Solaris, were the unbundled compiler confuses ISA and ABI, and
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| -the options have very confusing names.
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| - option interpretation
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| - ====== ==============
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| -cc -xarch=v8plus ISA=sparcv9, ABI=V8plus (PTR=32, see below)
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| -gcc -mv8plus ISA=sparcv9, ABI=V8plus (see below)
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| -cc -xarch=v9 ISA=sparcv9, ABI=V9 (implying AR=64, PTR=64)
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| -
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| -It's hard to believe, but the option v8plus really means ISA=V9!
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| -
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| -Solaris releases prior to version 7 running on a V9 CPU fails to
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| -save/restore the upper 32 bits of the `i' and `l' registers. The
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| -`v8plus' option generates code that use as many V9 features as
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| -possible under such circumstances.
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| -
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| -** MIPS
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| -The IRIX 6 compilers gets things right. They have a clear
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| -understanding of the differences between ABI and ISA. The option
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| -names are descriptive.
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| -
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| - option interpretation
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| - ====== ==============
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| -cc -n32 ABI=n32 (implying AR=64, PTR=32)
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| -gcc -mabi=n32 ABI=n32 (implying AR=64, PTR=32)
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| -cc -64 ABI=64 (implying AR=64, PTR=64)
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| -gcc -mabi=64 ABI=64 (implying AR=64, PTR=64)
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| -cc -mips3 ISA=mips3
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| -gcc -mips3 ISA=mips3
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| -cc -mips4 ISA=mips4
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| -gcc -mips4 ISA=mips4
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| -
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| -** HP-PA
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| -HP-UX is somewhat weird, but not as broken as Solaris.
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| - option interpretation
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| - ====== ==============
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| -cc +DA2.0 ABI=32bit (implying AR=64, PTR=32)
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| -cc +DD64 ABI=64bit (implying AR=64, PTR=64)
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| -
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| -Code performing 64-bit arithmetic in the HP-UX 32-bit is not
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| -compatible with the 64-bit ABI; the former has a calling convention
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| -that passes/returns 64-bit integer quantities as two 32-bit chunks.
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| -
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| -** PowerPC
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| -While the PowerPC ABI's are capable of supporting 64-bit
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| -registers/operations, the compilers under AIX are similar to Solaris'
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| -cc in that they don't currently provide any 32-bit addressing with
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| -64-bit arithmetic.
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| -
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| - option interpretation
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| - ====== ==============
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| -cc -q64 ABI=64bit (implying AR=64, PTR=64)
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| -gcc -maix64 -mpowerpc64 ABI=64bit (implying AR=64, PTR=64)
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