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Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 14:06:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: syscall changes to deal with 32->64 changes.
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:On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:40:43PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:>     the way for us to allow natively compiled multi-architectural support.
:>     e.g. consider this:
:> 
:> 	cc -ABI4 ...
:> 	cc -ABI5 ...
:> 	cc -ABILinux ...
:> 	cc -ABIOpenBSD ...
:
:Honestly, why do we have this need?  It seems to fall into the "it would
:be nice"; but seldomly used.

    Well, how do you intend to test the new ABI vector?

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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