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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-08 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ 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 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 23:59 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-03 0:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-03 0:24 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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 8:50 ` 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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