cvs commit: src/include ar.h

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Mon Nov 13 20:21:57 UTC 2006


In message: <20061113140349.0acfd25b.trhodes at FreeBSD.org>
            Tom Rhodes <trhodes at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: > On the arm, the __packed is absolutely required to not only compile,
: > but produce correct code.
: 
: This is a hardware thing correct?  Admittedly so, I have no clue
: about ARM.

Given the current ABI that we implement, yes.  The ABI we implement is
influenced by what is optimal for the ARM architecture.  There's a
newer ABI called EABI, iirc, that makes things look slightly more
i386ish so that more software will run.

Warner


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