Re: [zack%codesourcery.com@localhost: PowerPC SVR4 ABI compliance fix]

[Todd Vierling <tv%wasabisystems.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

: THIS PATCH BREAKS BINARY COMPATIBILITY.

...meaning that....

: Maintainers of PowerPC Linux, NetBSD, and FreeBSD should consider
: whether and when they can cope with an ABI change,

...we will be keeping the old ABI definition in gcc indefinitely.  However,
using the ELF OSABI field here to indicate the divergence may be
advantageous.

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