Re: config automatically switches from 32-bit to 64-bit for x86

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Thursday 27 May 2010, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:31, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 May 2010 12:31:23 +0800 Américo Wang wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 09:39:51AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> >> >On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> >> >> On Thursday 27 May 2010, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> >> >>> Hello,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I am trying to build 32 bit kernel image on 64-bit machine but after
> >> >>> 'make menuconfig' it automatically switches 32-bit to 64-bit.
> >> >>
> >> >> Try 'linux32 make menuconfig' and 'linux32 make'.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >Yes, this works :-)
> >>
> >>
> >> I think 'make ARCH=i386 menuconfig' also works.
> >
> > Yes, that's what I use.  I wasn't familiar with the "linux32 make ..." usage.
> 
> Doesn't the linux32 trick run the (possibly slower due to x86 register pressure)
> 32-bit compiler instead of running the 64-bit compiler in -m32 mode?

You're probably right, but I haven't noticed a difference yet. :-)

Rafael