From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 10:55:09 -0800 From: Aldy Hernandez To: "Kevin B. Hendricks" Cc: David Edelsohn , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, yellowdog-devel@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com Subject: Re: Status of 2.5.X kernels on PPC Linux, anyone working with NPTL? Message-ID: <20021103185509.GA2437@redhat.com> References: <66242FA2-EF5C-11D6-81A1-0003938E434C@ivey.uwo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <66242FA2-EF5C-11D6-81A1-0003938E434C@ivey.uwo.ca> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 01:45:18PM -0500, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Hi, > > >I also vaguely recall that Geoff has a list of ABI changes pending. > >Perhaps we should do all these at the same time. > > > Current violations of the abi for ppc linux include: > > - missing support for small structure return values in register pairs > r3, r4 I thought support for this already in place, but gcc had the wrong endianness in the registers. If this is so, I already have a patch for this (not commited though ;-)). > think about a > simultaneous push of patches to many of these projects to help them > maintain > support for ppc linux. But but... I've been hacking gcc so long, I can only write in K&R :-). Aldy ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/