Re: [RFA] Altivec ABI patches

David Edelsohn
2002-04-27T19:12:56Z

>>>>> 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