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Re: RFC: Add 32bit x86-64 support to binutils

On 12/30/2010 11:34 AM, David Daney wrote:
> 
> My suggestion:  Since people already spend a great deal of effort
> maintaining the existing i386 compatible Linux syscall infrastructure,
> make your new 32-bit x86-64 Linux syscall ABI identical to the existing
> i386 syscall ABI.  This means that the psABI must use the same size and
> alignment rules for in-memory structures as the i386 does.
> 

No, it doesn't.  It just means it need to do so *for the types used by
the kernel*.  The kernel uses types like __u64, which would indeed have
to be declared aligned(4).

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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