Re: Intermediate step for new arch for lc040 compatibility

John Klos <[email protected]> Sat, 3 May 2025 19:06:39 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.m68k
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> It also seems like this would be a good candidate for having ld.elf_so load
>> a different flavor of the library based on the FPU/CPU combo.
>
> +1

This would be good, but what about the binaries themselves?

If toolchains could easily be modified to create multiple codepaths for 
different CPUs / CPU options by default, for all compiles, package 
creation would take longer and packages would be bigger, but we could make 
everyone happy.

The fact that nobody is doing this in the amd64 / x86 world and are 
instead toying with the idea of dropping older x86-64 versions suggests 
that this isn't as trivial as one might think:

https://hackaday.com/2024/02/25/what-is-x86-64-v3/

John