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Date:      Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:20:04 +0000
From:      John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com>
To:        Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proposed elf header changes which affect PPC and ARM
Message-ID:  <20061004202004.GC82080@what-creek.com>
In-Reply-To: <84dead720610040844o5dc873bt7185e164b20d699@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20061004035533.GA76969@what-creek.com> <84dead720610040844o5dc873bt7185e164b20d699@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:14:26PM +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> >The patch: <http://people.freebsd.org/~jb/elf.patch>; moves
> >all the relocation definitions for each arch from the machine/elf.h
> >header to sys/elf_common.h.
> 
> What's the semantic difference between an 'Lword' and an 'Xword'?
> 
> + typedef uint64_t	Elf32_Lword;
> 
> and...
> 
>  typedef int32_t		Elf64_Sword;
>  typedef int64_t		Elf64_Sxword;
>  typedef uint32_t	Elf64_Word;
> + typedef uint64_t	Elf64_Lword;
>  typedef uint64_t	Elf64_Xword;

I'm not sure there is any. It's just something that OpenSolaris code
expects.

--
John Birrell



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