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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: x32-abi@googlegroups.com
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
	GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
	GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: X32 psABI status
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:48:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5bcnwvw.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D5711E0.7020306@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:04:00 -0800")

* H. Peter Anvin:

> On 02/12/2011 01:10 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> Why is the ia32 compatiblity kernel interface used?
>
> Because there is no way in hell we're designing in a second
> compatibility ABI in the kernel (and it has to be a compatibility ABI,
> because of the pointer size difference.)

Actually, I'm wondering if you can do the translation in user space.
There already are 32-on-64 implementations in existence, without
kernel changes (recent Hotspot, LuaJIT, and probably some more).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-13  8:48 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
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 [this message]
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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