Re: port-hppa/56065: Several old hppa binaries don't work on NetBSD 9.1

[Nick Hudson <nick.hudson%gmx.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-hppa/56065; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nick Hudson <nick.hudson%gmx.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, port-hppa-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-hppa/56065: Several old hppa binaries don't work on NetBSD
 9.1
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 09:02:15 +0100

 This is almost certainly because of
 
 https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2014/03/06/msg052429.html
 
 Log Message:
 Move to a flat space register convention. %sr[4-7] are all now the space
 number allocated to the process.  gcc produces (slightly) better code
 with this convention.
 
 Retain backwards compatiblity.
 
 Welcome to 6.99.36
 
 
 compat hooks are probably required to use earlier libc
 
 Nick