Re: IBM S/370 and binutils

["David and Jannette Uczen" <uczen at mint dot net>]

Just a quick correction in my last reply. When I was talking about the
mainframe it uses up to 32GB of memory, not 32MB.

--David

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
To: linas@linas.org <linas@linas.org>
Cc: uczen@mint.net <uczen@mint.net>; binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
<binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com>; linas@linas.org <linas@linas.org>
Date: Friday, October 29, 1999 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: IBM S/370 and binutils


>   Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:50:28 -0500 (CDT)
>   From: linas@linas.org
>
>   > -----Original Message-----
>   > From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
>   > To: uczen@mint.net <uczen@mint.net>
>   > Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com <binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com>
>   > Date: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 7:40 PM
>   > Subject: Re: IBM S/370 and binutils
>   >
>   >
>   > >   From: "David and Jannette Uczen" <uczen@mint.net>
>   > >   Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:22:49 -0400
>   > >
>   > >   I am forwarding this message to inform the binutils developers
that I
>   > >   believe that any further use of the ELF machine type EM_I370
(0xF00F)
>   > should
>   > >   be discontinued.
>
>   I picked this value in the absence of any other suitable value.
>   There is no formal ELF ABI that would specify such a value,
>   although I have been working on & off with folks inside of IBM
>   (the TJ Watson research center) to create such an ABI.  Clearly,
>   among the first steps would be to designate a machine type.
>
>   Please let me know who I should contact to get this (and also,
>   a type for the binary format) reserved in the most suitably
>   official manner possible.
>
>Talk to registry@sco.com.  They maintain the lists of official ELF
>machine numbers.  They'll give you a number if you ask, although
>sometimes you have to ask a few times.  It may help to pull in
>somebody from IBM; they seem to take big companies more seriously than
>free software people.
>
>First, though, is there some reason that it is inappropriate to use
>EM_S370?  I don't know anything about the 370, so that may be a stupid
>question.
>
>Ian
>
>