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Re: Does gcc violate the ia64 ABI?
On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 01:43:17PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> 2. Fix gcc and use a bit in ELF header to indicate the ABI change.
> Linker will make sure no mixed .o/.so files.
> 3. Fix gcc and use a special empty note section to indicate the ABI
> change. Linker will make sure no mixed .o/.so files.
Neither of these are viable. Some other, presumably conforming
psABI compiler will not emit either of these.
> BTW, Clause 'd' is in my Sept. 2000 copy of the runtime guide. It may
> have been there for a long time. We must have missed it somehow.
Hardly conclusive. We need to go back to at least 1998
to know if someone changed the ABI out from under us.
r~