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Re: 64 bit S/390 patches. Part 1 of 6.

To: schwidefsky at de dot ibm dot com
Subject: Re: 64 bit S/390 patches. Part 1 of 6.
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
Date: 16 Mar 2001 16:05:04 +0100
Cc: libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <C1256A11.004443D9.00@d12mta07.de.ibm.com>

schwidefsky@de.ibm.com writes:

|> >- from what I understand of the s390 architecture you can execute 31 bit
|> >  applications on 64 bit machines.  If this is right you'll have to add
|> >  code  similar to the one we have for IA-32/IA-64 to ldconfig.  The
|> >  s390-32 and s390-64 binary both should be able to handle the DSOs of
|> >  the other.
|> Ah, this is good to know. Is it just the definitions in ldconfig.h or are
|> there
|> other places I need to look?

You problably also need your own version of readelflib.c, see
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/{ia64,sparc}/readelflib.c.

Andreas.

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References:
- Re: 64 bit S/390 patches. Part 1 of 6.
  - From: schwidefsky

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