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Re: glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at ezchip dot com>, Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Kaz Kojima <kkojima at rr dot iij4u dot or dot jp>, Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>, Marcus Shawcroft <marcus dot shawcroft at linaro dot org>, Chung-Lin Tang <chunglin_tang at mentor dot com>, Adhemerval Zanella <azanella at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Andreas Krebbel <krebbel at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 04:44:03 -0800
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It doesn't change the size, only increases alignment from 4 bytes to 8 bytes.
>
> Alignment is part of the ABI.
>
For x32, we can increase alignment from 4 bytes to 8 bytes without breaking
existing binaries.
--
H.J.
- References:
- glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.
- Re: glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.
- Re: glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.
- Re: glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.
- Re: glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.
- Re: glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.
- Re: glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.
- Re: glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.
- Re: glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.
- Re: glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.