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Re: IBM S/370 and binutils
- To: "Ian Lance Taylor" <ian at zembu dot com>, <linas at linas dot org>
- Subject: Re: IBM S/370 and binutils
- From: "David and Jannette Uczen" <uczen at mint dot net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 21:35:36 -0400
- Cc: <binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>, <linas at linas dot org>
Just a quick correction in my last reply. When I was talking about the
mainframe it uses up to 32GB of memory, not 32MB.
--David
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
To: linas@linas.org <linas@linas.org>
Cc: uczen@mint.net <uczen@mint.net>; binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
<binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com>; linas@linas.org <linas@linas.org>
Date: Friday, October 29, 1999 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: IBM S/370 and binutils
> 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
>
>