From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/7442 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Cormack Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: ppc64 ABI Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 18:01:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20150419151221.GO6817@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429462898 28776 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2015 17:01:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 17:01:38 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-7455-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Apr 19 19:01:31 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjsb4-0001uu-4b for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:01:30 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 32401 invoked by uid 550); 19 Apr 2015 17:01:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 32381 invoked from network); 19 Apr 2015 17:01:28 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=specialbusservice.com; s=google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=qyb2RDAoAm9IQzOREzkVV2TIPyOdD+3OSKjhjvvg2vk=; b=WyDSQJW4IVnlTSNFWckN68il2uEpa03dtIfVUk0PBY7pnaXY8bV0dbLocomuUe2YSt SLUNH/R+5si7t6+ECdr18oqh3b+QwKL/t5wvHiN6P2mE05R6nzSM3UcwYu87ruxORag7 6h7cXW/RGRrDv33AVzx5BQwcytNQGnfpxZ/64= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=qyb2RDAoAm9IQzOREzkVV2TIPyOdD+3OSKjhjvvg2vk=; b=CX4OZW+U8fp9Q7L33SQ1tTTdEQS1GMBNdNZNQ0+4hdEW2Nx5AxEGrxf4QPdKLmmFsO h0oa3DmHUUs5V84bMaJwYy73au5sj8LeLMuK/ZkmY4J9tjscceJVh0kzqwxjthfHzi2J UBFWOEVlN5iztfIfBrRYXTq4j9uQLkFjJWgYMhl0BQvGkKISrnc6l/Xr2vAqO4SzTJLn k1mO9jhhp226mPAv/HfjQTd04eTMz74U88bF0NtvlGJU3eUYV/YCuXy/MRXvoVsEEg2h kuWVLPVV/8f6zIZC2xKLQBlRTBbyaWKkJsxLK1i1+IjpBEFjmkMplK5fhwFOo6mLbwRZ oKYw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlna9oYmFy68LzUI1Vutp1C4MLQvKbIjvJViUlc36EX4PjD+EBtYyWhUYLR0OFhz1ySRhZ9 X-Received: by 10.194.59.4 with SMTP id v4mr24201900wjq.54.1429462877288; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 10:01:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150419151221.GO6817@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:7442 Archived-At: On 19 April 2015 at 16:12, Rich Felker wrote: >> v2, usually known as powerpc64le, helpfully. It is not little endian >> exclusively, but there are no existing distros that are big endian. >> Aim was to make it much closer to a standard ABI, so function pointers >> are gone. > > Do you mean function descriptors? yes. > Unless there's a strong reason (like compatibility with existing code, > which won't be much of an issue here) I prefer not to introduce two > different ABIs for the same target. If v2 is really that much better I > would like to just go with it from the beginning. Having v2 for BE > could also be an interesting "first" musl could claim. Yes that seems sane. Justin