On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> Another thought.  Because of the condition code clobbering aspect of the 
> new abi, you won't be able to mix code compiled with it with, say a shared 
> library built for apcs-26 mode.  Maybe you realised this anyway, but it is 
> another of the restrictions.

That's precisely why I want to get this done before I put shared libraries
in NetBSD/arm26.  Once there are shared libraries to deal with, the
transition gets a lot messier.

> Another thing we need to consider when switching to ELF on arm32 is the 
> basic alignment we return.  Newer processors with architecture v5 (eg 
> XScale) have instructions that only work on double-word aligned memory.  

That'll be fun.  Presumably this won't directly affect code built for
older CPUs.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>