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Re: Two small fixes for s/390.

From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
To: "Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky at de dot ibm dot com>
Cc: drepper at redhat dot com (Ulrich Drepper),libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:54:23 +0100
Subject: Re: Two small fixes for s/390.
References: <OF352AC254.EA998DC0-ONC1256B28.0040C6EB@de.ibm.com>

"Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> writes:

>> > Ok, I can do that. I'll clean up sysdeps/s390/bits/string.h as well
>> > because I use the same #ifdef there.
>>
>> Is that really needed?  For bi-arch support, we should leave
>> bits/string.h as it is so that you can compile 32-bit and 64-bit apps
>> with that header...
>
> You have a point here. If we want to do bi-arch support sometime, we
> need to have a way to distinguish between 31/32-bit and 64-bit in the
> header files. __s390x__ versus __s390__ is one way to do it, is there
> a better one ?

Sparc uses:
#if __WORDSIZE == 64

#endif

I'm not sure what's better but it's an alternative ;-)

Andreas
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