From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20061 invoked by alias); 27 Apr 2002 19:12:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20049 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2002 19:12:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO igw3.watson.ibm.com) (198.81.209.18) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 2002 19:12:53 -0000 Received: from sp1n293en1.watson.ibm.com (sp1n293en1.watson.ibm.com [9.2.112.57]) by igw3.watson.ibm.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g3RJCkQ11418; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 15:12:46 -0400 Received: from makai.watson.ibm.com (makai.watson.ibm.com [9.2.216.144]) by sp1n293en1.watson.ibm.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g3RJCkd30780; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 15:12:46 -0400 Received: from watson.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by makai.watson.ibm.com (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3/01-10-2000) with ESMTP id PAA30618; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 15:12:46 -0400 Message-Id: <200204271912.PAA30618@makai.watson.ibm.com> To: Kevin Buettner , Elena Zannoni cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Altivec ABI patches References: <1020427080809.ZM32701@localhost.localdomain> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 12:12:00 -0000 From: David Edelsohn X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg01102.txt.bz2 >>>>> Kevin Buettner writes: | Well, the code in question doesn't work for 64-bit ABIs, but then, as | I understand it, the 64-bit PowerPC SVR4 ABI resembles the old PowerOpen | ABI than it does the 32-bit SVR4 ABI. (Actually, I don't know that | much about it. If someone could give me a pointer to an ABI spec for | the 64-bit ABI, I would appreciate it very much.) A copy of the 64-bit PowerPC SVR4 ABI Supplement is available in Alan Modra's Toolchain directory on the linuxppc64 website: ftp://ftp.linuxppc64.org/pub/people/amodra/PPC-elf64abi.txt.gz The ABI is mostly a natural mapping of the PowerOpen ABI to the ELF file format. David