Re: libgfortran.so SONAME and powerpc64le-linux ABI changes

[Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>]

Hi Joseph,

On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 07:24:31PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > Some current Power GCC targets support neither.  Some support only
> > double-double.  Making IEEE QP float work on those (that is, those that
> > are < power8) will require some work still: it should use libquadmath or
> > similar, but that needs to be put into the ABIs, to define how parameter
> > passing works for those types.  Just treating it like a struct or an
> > array of ints will work fine, but it needs to be written down.  This is
> > more than just Fortran.
> 
> Is the 64-bit BE (ELFv1) ABI maintained somewhere?  (The 32-bit ABI, 
> covering both hard float and soft float, is 
> <https://github.com/ryanarn/powerabi> - no activity lately, but I think 
> Ryan said he'd given write access to someone still involved with Power.)

The last release (version 1.9) was in 2004.  If there is interest in
making updates to it that coulde be done of course, it is GFDL, there is
no red tape getting in the way.

Maybe this could be maintained in the same repository even?


Segher