From owner-freebsd-ppc Thu Jun 8 1:51:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5421137BB0D for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 01:51:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA62242 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 10:51:44 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 10:51:44 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: the abi Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Or, actually, *THE* ABI. We really do need it, so somebody needs to step forward and say what it will be. And no, I won't do it. We have the chices of: 1) the AIX/PowerOpen ABI 2) the SYSV4 PPC ABI 3) the EABI 4) grow our own 1) Really stinks 2) Stinks, but everybody uses it 3) Is a variation of 2) 4) Need not stink in principle. We need to tell the toolchain what it looks like. 1) is probably the worst, and I don't know the best. This way or other, how about somebody deciding something? Sander To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message