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Subject: Re: removing SVR4 binary compatibilty layer
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Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org wrote
on Tue Feb 14 18:32:40 UTC 2017 :

>   After some discussion on svn mailing list [1], there is intention
> to remove SVR4 binary compatibilty layer from FreeBSD head, meaning
> that FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE, available in couple of years would
> be shipped without it. There is no intention of merge of the removal.
> The stable@ mailing list added for wider audience.

Can we presume no invalidation of the TARGET_ARCH=powerpc ABI?
It is SVR4 based as I remember (unlike TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64 ).

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