From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20712 invoked by alias); 24 Oct 2003 00:52:21 -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 20663 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2003 00:52:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Oct 2003 00:52:20 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.24 #1 (Debian)) id 1ACqBf-0004X9-UM; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:52:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:52:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/rfc,rfa:ppc64] Add osabi wildcard support Message-ID: <20031024005219.GA17411@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <3F986371.9060708@redhat.com> <20031023234150.GA16173@nevyn.them.org> <3F987479.7020904@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F987479.7020904@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00715.txt.bz2 On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 08:38:17PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > > >The table is almost certainly not complete, but that's not the problem > >here. The e500 is compatible with ppc - the e500 can run ppc code. > >Vice versa is not necessarily true. There's a FIXME in osabi.c saying > >that we should look for the most compatible architecture: > > FYI, the e500 doesn't have the PPC's FPU so it can't (well ignoring > emulation) run PPC floating-point code. Neither can half of the other PPCs that Linux runs on - the 8xx and 4xx lines (well, most of the existing 4xx line, not all of it) don't have an FPU either. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer