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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>
Cc: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Early crash (was: Re: module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfs)
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:31:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2tygedxgz.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSM.4.64L.1102052346060.22476@herc.mirbsd.org> (Thorsten Glaser's message of "Sat, 5 Feb 2011 23:47:09 +0000")

Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> writes:

> Andreas Schwab dixit:
>
>>On m68k, every object by default is at most aligned to a 2 byte
>>boundary.  That's a heritage of the original Sun m68000 compiler, which
>>served as the template for the gcc configuration for Linux/m68k when the
>>porting started.
>
> Ah, from there. I think it might violate the SYSV ABI, funnily
> enough (which I've peeked into in order to port elfutils when
> bored again). Oh the history ;)

I looked into fixing that when I ported m68k from a.out to ELF.
Unfortunately, that would have broken a big part of the syscall/ioctl
ABI, so I had to scratch that.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-08 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-01 20:33 Early crash (was: Re: module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfs) Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-02-01 21:09 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-01 21:09   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-01 22:03   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-02-01 22:26     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-02 14:48       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-02-02 19:42         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-02 22:52           ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-02 22:52             ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-02 23:59             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-03  0:10               ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-03  0:10                 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-03  0:24                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-03 17:38                   ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-03 17:38                     ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-05 23:47                     ` Thorsten Glaser
2011-02-08 21:31                       ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2011-02-08 22:46                         ` Thorsten Glaser
2011-02-07  8:19                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-07  8:19                     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-07  8:50                     ` Early crash David Miller
2011-02-07 16:58                       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-07 19:27                         ` David Miller
2011-02-07 19:28                           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-08  3:12                           ` Rusty Russell
2011-02-08  3:31                             ` David Miller

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