Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:13:42 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: trhodes@FreeBSD.org Cc: jkoshy@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include ar.h Message-ID: <20061113.131342.-1540392691.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20061113140349.0acfd25b.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> References: <20061113173927.Q75708@delplex.bde.org> <20061113.101808.-1540392146.imp@bsdimp.com> <20061113140349.0acfd25b.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: > On the arm, the __packed is absolutely required to not only compile,
: > but produce correct code.
:
: This is a hardware thing correct? Admittedly so, I have no clue
: about ARM.
Given the current ABI that we implement, yes. The ABI we implement is
influenced by what is optimal for the ARM architecture. There's a
newer ABI called EABI, iirc, that makes things look slightly more
i386ish so that more software will run.
Warner
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