From owner-freebsd-ppc Mon Jun 26 21:21:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from alexandria.murdoch.edu.au (alexandria.murdoch.edu.au [134.115.241.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E1737BE3C for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:21:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jarvis@guru.wow.aust.com) Received: from guru.wow.aust.com (regmac23.murdoch.edu.au [134.115.241.182]) by alexandria.murdoch.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA70895; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:21:13 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from jarvis@guru.wow.aust.com) Message-ID: <39582BB9.DFC14786@guru.wow.aust.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:21:14 +0800 From: Jarvis Cochrane Reply-To: jarvis@guru.wow.aust.com Organization: Murdoch University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Silly (newbie!) question re ABI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I've just read through the WHOLE archive of this mailing list! There was a discussion a little while back about what the ABI should be for FBSD-PPC. Has anyone had any further thoughts on this? I'd also appreciate it if someone could clarify why the PPC ABI needs to be different to the i386 ABI. I'm kind of assuming that the term ABI refers to the messy details of translating something like creat() into a call to the kernel - putting parameters into registers or onto the stack, etc, which is necessarily architecture-dependent. Apologies for my ignorance, Jarvis -- Jarvis Cochrane IT Support Officer | jarvis@guru.wow.aust.com Office of Student Services | cochrane@central.murdoch.edu.au Murdoch University | ICQ: 52693836 Western Australia | [intl 61 8] 9360 6128 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message