Big Endian support as multi-ABI (was Re: [PATCH v4 02/15] ARC: ABI Implementation)
Vineet Gupta
Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com
Tue Mar 31 21:35:17 GMT 2020
On 3/31/20 2:27 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2020, Vineet Gupta via Libc-alpha wrote:
>
>> But a BE system can't possibly be mixed with a LE, its not really a
>> multilib case
>
> Indeed. The Linux kernel does not support running BE processes on an LE
> kernel or vice versa, even when the underlying architecture does support
> runtime changes of endianness. So all the pieces that are relevant for
> 32-bit / 64-bit coexistence like that are irrelevant (but each ABI should
> still have a unique dynamic linker name).
Thx for confirming.
-Vineet
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