[yocto] x86-64 with -mx32 option?

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Sun Jun 26 11:53:31 PDT 2016


Yes, x32 is built and tested on the autobuilder daily.

Ross

On 26 June 2016 at 01:39, Paul D. DeRocco <pderocco at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Has anyone successfully used Yocto to build a Linux system for a 64-bit
> Intel processor using the -mx32 compiler option, forcing all long and
> pointer types to 32 bits? I've got an embedded system with a gig of RAM
> and I'd like to have access to the larger register set (especially SSE) of
> 64-bit mode, but suspect that using 32-bit pointers might speed things up
> a bit, by saving cache space.
>
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