On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> > > 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.
> 
> Actually it does.  At least, if you ever want to be able to call between 
> libraries built for the appropriate architectures.

OK.  This is true.  In that case, such alignment should probably be part
of the NetBSD/arm ABI.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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