Re: READ ME: ABI issue

[David Edelsohn <dje%watson.ibm.com@localhost>]

>>>>> Jason Thorpe writes:

Jason> On Wed, 6 May 1998 10:37:16 -0700 
Jason> "Erik E. Fair" <fair%clock.org@localhost> wrote:

>> How difficult will it be to do an AIX emulation with the System V calling
>> convention?

Jason> Not that hard; just define a different syscall gate for COMPAT_AIX.

        Remember that AIX PowerOpen ABI uses TOC and XCOFF versus GOT and
ELF.  Creating a stub TOC and translating between TOC and GOT for
addressibility might be a little tricky, but not impossible.

David
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