From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David and Jannette Uczen" To: "Ian Lance Taylor" , Cc: , Subject: Re: IBM S/370 and binutils Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:37:00 -0000 Message-id: <004401bf2277$1165cc80$4181e3d8@duczen--lap.hannaford.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-10/msg00176.html Just a quick correction in my last reply. When I was talking about the mainframe it uses up to 32GB of memory, not 32MB. --David -----Original Message----- From: Ian Lance Taylor To: linas@linas.org Cc: uczen@mint.net ; binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com ; linas@linas.org Date: Friday, October 29, 1999 12:36 PM Subject: Re: IBM S/370 and binutils > Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:50:28 -0500 (CDT) > From: linas@linas.org > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ian Lance Taylor > > To: uczen@mint.net > > Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com > > Date: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 7:40 PM > > Subject: Re: IBM S/370 and binutils > > > > > > > From: "David and Jannette Uczen" > > > Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:22:49 -0400 > > > > > > I am forwarding this message to inform the binutils developers that I > > > believe that any further use of the ELF machine type EM_I370 (0xF00F) > > should > > > be discontinued. > > I picked this value in the absence of any other suitable value. > There is no formal ELF ABI that would specify such a value, > although I have been working on & off with folks inside of IBM > (the TJ Watson research center) to create such an ABI. Clearly, > among the first steps would be to designate a machine type. > > Please let me know who I should contact to get this (and also, > a type for the binary format) reserved in the most suitably > official manner possible. > >Talk to registry@sco.com. They maintain the lists of official ELF >machine numbers. They'll give you a number if you ask, although >sometimes you have to ask a few times. It may help to pull in >somebody from IBM; they seem to take big companies more seriously than >free software people. > >First, though, is there some reason that it is inappropriate to use >EM_S370? I don't know anything about the 370, so that may be a stupid >question. > >Ian > >