Google group for generic System V Application Binary Interface

H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Thu Sep 28 14:32:00 GMT 2006


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.



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