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Re: Google group for generic System V Application Binary Interface
- From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- To: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead dot org>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:11:25 -0700
- Subject: Re: Google group for generic System V Application Binary Interface
- References: <20060927223245.GA13281@lucon.org> <20060928135330.GA16889@infradead.org>
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:53:30PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:32:45PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > I created a Google group to discuss generic ABI:
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/generic-abi
> >
> > It is by membership only. Let me know if you are interested.
>
> What's this supposed to be? Reinventing the doomed iBCS2?
Not at all. It is for generic ABI which is processor independent.
However, the current i386 psABI doesn't really reflect/cover what
have been added to i386 like MMX and SSE. Also gcc uses 16byte
stack alignment, instead of 4byte, for SSE. Should we create a
Google group for ia32 psABI?
H.J.