Re: IBM S/370 and binutils

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>]

   Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:50:28 -0500 (CDT)
   From: linas@linas.org

   > -----Original Message-----
   > From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
   > To: uczen@mint.net <uczen@mint.net>
   > Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com <binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com>
   > Date: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 7:40 PM
   > Subject: Re: IBM S/370 and binutils
   > 
   > 
   > >   From: "David and Jannette Uczen" <uczen@mint.net>
   > >   Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:22:49 -0400
   > >
   > >   I am forwarding this message to inform the binutils developers that I
   > >   believe that any further use of the ELF machine type EM_I370 (0xF00F)
   > should
   > >   be discontinued.

   I picked this value in the absence of any other suitable value.
   There is no formal ELF ABI that would specify such a value,
   although I have been working on & off with folks inside of IBM 
   (the TJ Watson research center) to create such an ABI.  Clearly,
   among the first steps would be to designate a machine type.  

   Please let me know who I should contact to get this (and also, 
   a type for the binary format) reserved in the most suitably 
   official manner possible.

Talk to registry@sco.com.  They maintain the lists of official ELF
machine numbers.  They'll give you a number if you ask, although
sometimes you have to ask a few times.  It may help to pull in
somebody from IBM; they seem to take big companies more seriously than
free software people.

First, though, is there some reason that it is inappropriate to use
EM_S370?  I don't know anything about the 370, so that may be a stupid
question.

Ian