From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
To: ian@zembu.com (Ian Lance Taylor)
Cc: linas@linas.org, uczen@mint.net, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: IBM S/370 and binutils
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:05:00 -0000
Message-id: <19991029170539.824FF1B493@ocean.lucon.org>
References: <19991029163535.23894.qmail@daffy.airs.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-10/msg00171.html

> 
> 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.

I am looking at the draft of the next SVR4 gABI. 9 is reserved. In the
previous email from Joel at SCO, it will be used for EM_S370.

> 
> 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.

Linas, does Linux/i370 use the same ABI as defined by Amdahl's EM_S370?
If we do, we can use it. Otherwise, we have to apply for a new EM_I370.


-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)