Re: CVS commit: src

[Adam Hoka <adam.hoka%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:57:27 +0200
Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:43:33PM +0400, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 16:24:40 +0000, Tom Spindler wrote:
> > 
> > > >         src/sys/sys: exec_elf.h
> > > > 
> > > > Log Message:
> > > > Replace the current usage of Elf64_Half with Elf64_Word and rename
> > > > NetBSD specific Elf64_Quarter to Elf64_Half. This restores compatibility
> > > > with the common ELF specifications.
> > > 
> > > I believe this change is what's causing alpha to blow up:
> > > 
> > > /src/nbsrc/external/bsd/libdwarf/dist/dwarf_dump.c:884: warning: format 
> > > '%u' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'Elf64_Word'
> > > /src/nbsrc/external/bsd/libdwarf/dist/dwarf_dump.c:886: warning: format 
> > > '%u' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'Elf64_Word'
> > > 
> > > There's (still) a ton of lint warnings in libdwarf, but they don't seem to
> > > have changed for i386, at least.
> > 
> > 
> > sys/arch/alpha/include/elf_machdep.h:
> > 
> > /*
> >  * Alpha ELF uses different (non-standard) definitions of Elf64_Sword
> >  * and Elf64_Word.
> >  */
> > typedef     int64_t         Elf64_Sword;
> > #define     ELF64_FSZ_SWORD 8
> > typedef     uint64_t        Elf64_Word;
> > #define     ELF64_FSZ_WORD  8
> 
> That violates the ELF API as specified by SCO again. Is there any reason
> why Alpha has to be special and can't just use the standard types?
> 
> Joerg

also, why does alpha use non standard platform magic number?

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