Re: lang/gcc* and MULTILIB: arm64 (aarch64) is never set up, even for main

On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 10:35:12PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2024, Lorenzo Salvadore wrote:
> >> [lang/gcc*] never adds MULTILIB for aarch64 (arm64).
> >> 
> >> But these days arm64 (aarch64) has lib32 support:
> >> 14.0-RELEASE has it and main [so: 15] has it.
> 
> Does anyone use this, though? (It's not like FreeBSD provides proper 
> bi-arch support with ports and everything.)
No idea about aarch64, but I use -m32 often (daily) for amd64.

> 
> > I think this is not deliberate, but I have never touched this block
> > of code since I took the GCC ports maintainership yet. We can
> > probably add MULTILIB for aarch64 too and I will check into it
> > as soon as possible.
> 
> When that code was written, aarch64 did not feature lib32 support. Is 
> this, and support by lang/gcc*, "academic", or something users really 
> want and are likely to use?
> 
> Gerald