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Re: PPC startup code
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: paulus at samba dot org
- Cc: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>,sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 10:57:19 -0800
- Subject: Re: PPC startup code
> Given that the calling sequence is in fact defined in the ABI spec, I
> think we probably shouldn't change it without a really good reason.
This makes it sound like it's part of a formal spec, which it's not. The
registers at startup are part of the ELF ABI spec. But __libc_start_main
and its calling sequence are just part of the glibc ABI, which can and does
change between glibc releases. There is just the set of practical issues I
mentioned with the part of the ABI involving crt1.o changing, which is rare
but not intrinsically different from other glibc ABI changes that are fine.