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Re: X32 psABI status
- From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor dot com>
- To: x32-abi at googlegroups dot com
- Cc: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, LKML <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>
- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:04:00 -0800
- Subject: Re: X32 psABI status
- References: <AANLkTikgfv+L9WS4s6n5mQcXWTzc6YMNUSsgBiAOmKbE@mail.gmail.com> <87aai1gdr7.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
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.)
-hpa
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