[PATCH 1/2] Add support for O32 FPXX ABI

Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed Apr 23 20:43:00 GMT 2014


On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Richard Sandiford wrote:

> Perhaps also an ABI revision number, so that we can bump it when
> adding things that old loaders won't be able to handle correctly.

We already have such a system in binutils / glibc, whereby EI_ABIVERSION 
is set by ld and checked by ld.so, it's just bitrotten (apparently) in 
various ways.  See 
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-01/msg00375.html> for my most 
recent notes on this.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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