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Date:      Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:54:41 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        joseph.koshy@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proposed elf header changes which affect PPC and ARM
Message-ID:  <20061004.105441.1649768370.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <84dead720610040844o5dc873bt7185e164b20d699@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20061004035533.GA76969@what-creek.com> <84dead720610040844o5dc873bt7185e164b20d699@mail.gmail.com>

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In message: <84dead720610040844o5dc873bt7185e164b20d699@mail.gmail.com>
            "Joseph Koshy" <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> writes:
: > The patch: <http://people.freebsd.org/~jb/elf.patch>; moves
: > all the relocation definitions for each arch from the machine/elf.h
: > header to sys/elf_common.h.
: 
: What's the semantic difference between an 'Lword' and an 'Xword'?
: 
: + typedef uint64_t	Elf32_Lword;
: 
: and...
: 
:   typedef int32_t		Elf64_Sword;
:   typedef int64_t		Elf64_Sxword;
:   typedef uint32_t	Elf64_Word;
: + typedef uint64_t	Elf64_Lword;
:   typedef uint64_t	Elf64_Xword;
: 
:   /*

What's the advantage of moving all the machine specific defines as
well?

Warner



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