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Re: ABI for C and C++ on x86
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at red-bean dot com>
- To: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gcc-help <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 17:18:14 -0800
- Subject: Re: ABI for C and C++ on x86
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On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2) Is this choice documented somewhere authoritative? I expected the
>> LSB to be the authority here, but it a) seems to be being abandoned
>> (Debian backed away from it this September), and b) only
>> cites the SysV i386 supplement, which predates C99 and things like bool.
>
> The official psABI may not be current, but it's still maintained via
> an unofficial fork, see https://github.com/hjl-tools/x86-psABI/wiki
> for links to more info.
Thanks very much. Does GCC have a policy of following this fork at present?