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Re: libffi on for NetBSD on the PowerPC
- To: green at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: libffi on for NetBSD on the PowerPC
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:29:36 -0700
- CC: egreen at allegronetworks dot com, libffi-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <01BFF625.54E24100.green@cygnus.com>
> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:43:16 -0700
> Organization: Red Hat
> It shouldn't be very difficult since libffi already supports PPC Linux. I
> don't know for sure, but I suspect that NetBSD and Linux share the same
> calling conventions.
I believe NetBSD is using XCOFF like AIX, where linux is using ELF.
The changes involved shouldn't be as bad as a new port, but not as
easy as a port that has already been done :-).
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>