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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
	GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	x32-abi@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: X32 psABI status
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:10:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aai1gdr7.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikgfv+L9WS4s6n5mQcXWTzc6YMNUSsgBiAOmKbE@mail.gmail.com> (H. J. Lu's message of "Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:41:01 -0800")

* H. J. Lu:

> We made lots of progresses on x32 pABI:
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/
>
> 1. Kernel interface with syscall is close to be finalized.
> 2. GCC x32 branch is stabilizing.
> 3. The Bionic C library works with the syscall kernel interface.
>
> The next major milestone will be x32 glibc port.

It is a bit difficult to extract useful information from these
resources.

Is off_t 32 bits?  Why is the ia32 compatiblity kernel interface used?
I'm sure a lot of people want to get rid of that in cases where they
control the whole software stack.

Is stack alignment to 16 bytes beneficial for X32?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-12 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-12 19:41 X32 psABI status H.J. Lu
2011-02-12 21:10 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2011-02-12 21:29   ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-12 23:04   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-13  3:02     ` Andrew Pinski
2011-02-13  8:48     ` Florian Weimer
2011-02-13 13:45       ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-13 15:07         ` Florian Weimer
2011-02-13 15:13           ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-13 15:21             ` Florian Weimer
2011-02-13 15:37               ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-13 16:35             ` Petr Baudis
2011-02-13 16:48               ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-13 17:37               ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-02-13 15:43           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2011-02-13 15:57             ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-13 20:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-13 21:10   ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-13 21:16     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-13 21:28       ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-13 22:03         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-13 22:12           ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-13 21:33       ` Alan Cox
2011-02-14  1:52         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-13 22:27       ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-13 22:28       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-13 22:46         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-13 22:57           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-13 23:03             ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-13 23:39           ` Alan Cox
2011-02-13 23:50             ` H.J. Lu
2011-02-14  1:59             ` H. Peter Anvin

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