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From: Kenneth Johansson <kenneth.johansson@inn.ericsson.se>
To: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: Jerry Van Baren <vanbaren_gerald@si.com>,
	linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Initial stack frame
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:12:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A76D9D1.A530BD6F@inn.ericsson.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200101301446.f0UEkTO10556@denx.local.net


Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>
> In message <4.3.2.20010130074919.00bb0a80@falcon.si.com>
> Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> >
> > One of the differences between the ABI and EABI is that the EABI
> > requires 8 byte alignment of the stack and the ABI requires 16 byte
> > alignment (EABI, p.28).
>
> Yes, ok. But what is implemented by GCC and glibc? The SVR4 ABI or
> the EABI?
>
> In other words: Wolfgang Grandegger wants to know if  we  must  align
> "private" stack frames on 8 or 16 byte boundaries...
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>

linux implements SVR4 with exceptions that we don't return small(8 or less
bytes) structs in r3,r4 as the standard say we should. Could be more things I
have not noticed we are anyway closer to SVR4 than EABI.


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-30 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-27  1:29 Sandpoint 8240 or 7400 Roland Dreier
2001-01-27  1:59 ` Roland Dreier
2001-01-27  2:04 ` Dan Malek
2001-01-29 18:07   ` Roland Dreier
2001-01-29 19:33     ` Dan Malek
2001-01-30 23:55       ` Roland Dreier
     [not found]     ` <3A75DB0F.29DC7C96@bluewin.ch>
2001-01-30 13:26       ` Initial stack frame Jerry Van Baren
2001-01-30 14:46         ` Wolfgang Denk
2001-01-30 15:12           ` Kenneth Johansson [this message]
2001-01-30 15:27           ` Jerry Van Baren

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