[libc-dev] ppc64le and 32-bit LE userland compatibility

Segher Boessenkool via libc-dev libc-dev at lists.llvm.org
Thu Jun 4 10:12:32 PDT 2020


On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 05:13:25PM +0200, Daniel Kolesa wrote:
> well, ppc64le already cannot be run on those, as far as I know (I don't think it's possible to build ppc64le userland without VSX in any configuration)

VSX is required by the ELFv2 ABI:

"""
Specifically, to use this ABI and ABI-compliant programs, OpenPOWER-
compliant processors must implement the following categories:

[...]

Vector-Scalar
"""


Segher


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