Subject: Re: ARM ELF toolchain patches
To: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/21/2001 19:26:39
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Charles M. Hannum wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 07:10:29PM +0000, Ben Harris wrote:
> >
> > If people want to make any more changes to the ABI (8-byte alignment of
> > int64_t?), now's the time to mention it.
> 
> Are you, or are you not, using the same ABI that ARM Ltd. and/or Linux
> are using?

I honestly don't know.  This is part of why I put in that sentence.

At the moment, we mostly follow GCC's defaults, with the only significant
difference being our use of VFP-format doubles rather than FPA-format.  
This probably makes us different from Linux.  I've no idea how we differ
from ARM's view of the world.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>