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Re: [RFA] Altivec ABI patches
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb at redhat dot com>, Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 15:12:45 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Altivec ABI patches
- References: <1020427080809.ZM32701@localhost.localdomain>
>>>>> Kevin Buettner writes:
| Well, the code in question doesn't work for 64-bit ABIs, but then, as
| I understand it, the 64-bit PowerPC SVR4 ABI resembles the old PowerOpen
| ABI than it does the 32-bit SVR4 ABI. (Actually, I don't know that
| much about it. If someone could give me a pointer to an ABI spec for
| the 64-bit ABI, I would appreciate it very much.)
A copy of the 64-bit PowerPC SVR4 ABI Supplement is available in
Alan Modra's Toolchain directory on the linuxppc64 website:
ftp://ftp.linuxppc64.org/pub/people/amodra/PPC-elf64abi.txt.gz
The ABI is mostly a natural mapping of the PowerOpen ABI to the
ELF file format.
David