From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab 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 Message-ID: References: <20110201210944.GA12348@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20110201222637.GA17521@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20110202194227.GA13794@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20110202235948.GA8676@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> <20110203002459.GA26729@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:58828 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752121Ab1BHVcA (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:32:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Thorsten Glaser's message of "Sat, 5 Feb 2011 23:47:09 +0000") Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Thorsten Glaser Cc: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org Thorsten Glaser 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. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."