Re: Early crash (was: Re: module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfs)

Andreas Schwab
2011-02-08T21:32:00Z

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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