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Re: [non-GCC] Writing a compiler-backend for Linux/PowerPC
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>
- To: Suriya Narayanan M S <suriya at cs dot utexas dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Suriya Narayanan M S <mssnlayam at vsnl dot net>
- Date: 30 Sep 2004 20:39:48 -0400
- Subject: Re: [non-GCC] Writing a compiler-backend for Linux/PowerPC
- References: <20040930140344.GB30810@cs.utexas.edu>
Suriya Narayanan M S <suriya@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
> Could someone point me to some (authoritative) documents on writing a
> compiler/backend for Linux on PowerPC. I have the ISA manual. But I would
> like to have some information about the ABI for Linux (does Linux follow
> the System V ABI ?).
Linux usually more or less follows the SVR4 ABI. For 64-bit PowerPC,
the ABI is here:
http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/PPC-elf64abi-1.7.html
Ian