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Re: 64 bit PowerPC glibc
- To: tom_gall at vnet dot ibm dot com
- Subject: Re: 64 bit PowerPC glibc
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 01 Dec 2000 11:54:05 -0800
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <3A27F893.47564245@vnet.ibm.com>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com writes:
> I've also been looking at the porting document.
The documentation coming with glibc is all there is.
> From what I understand thus far it would appear most of the fun is
> going to be in the sysdeps dir.
Yes. But since there is already a PPC port (32 bit) the job will be
quite easy. Most of the time you'll tweak an existing file. SPARC
already has 32 and 64 bit support, look at that code.
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