Subject: Re: ARM ELF toolchain patches
To: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm26
Date: 02/22/2001 15:11:46
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Philip Blundell wrote:
> Well, he can't be using both. The main difference is that the Linux ABI has
> -mstructure-size-boundary-32, and the ARM ABI has -mstructure-size-boundary=8
> (or the equivalent, anyway). I'd suggest that NetBSD should use the latter.
Argh! I thought the whole point of moving to 32-bit padded structures was
because that was what the ARM ABI specified. Have they changed things
recently, or have I been misguided all along?
At least this means we won't need COMPAT_ARM_AOUT.
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Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26 <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>