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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: Can I run an application compiled with gcc ABI 2.95 on a kernel compiled with gcc ABI 3.4?
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:56:15 +0100
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Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, muzungu@gmx.net, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Structure packing: Isn't that basically the same set of fixups that
> need to be done for 32-bit compatibility on 64-bit kernels?  Could it
> even use the same code - sneakily replacing "32" with OABI and "64"
> with EABI?

On second thoughts, I guess there may be a few fixups in common but
not much.

-- Jamie