Eduardo, I know I've asked you before about this ... but please STOP
stripping the mailing list CC when I send a message to the mailing list.
I intended for this thread to show up in the mail archives.

On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:00:15PM -0000, eeh@netbsd.org wrote:

 > No, it isn't the wrong way to do this.  This information is needed by 
 > assembly routines to be sure they match the compiler generated code.
 > If you have the compiler define this you can get a mismatch between
 > assembly routines and C routines.

Our assembly routines are processed by the C preprocessor (obviously
they are, since you are TESTING for _LP64 being defined).  Therefore,
if you supply the correct arguments when assembling .S files, _LP64
will be defined, and the right thing will happen.

-- 
        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>