Re: X32 psABI status

[Florian Weimer]

* H. J. Lu:

> We made lots of progresses on x32 pABI:
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/
>
> 1. Kernel interface with syscall is close to be finalized.
> 2. GCC x32 branch is stabilizing.
> 3. The Bionic C library works with the syscall kernel interface.
>
> The next major milestone will be x32 glibc port.

It is a bit difficult to extract useful information from these
resources.

Is off_t 32 bits?  Why is the ia32 compatiblity kernel interface used?
I'm sure a lot of people want to get rid of that in cases where they
control the whole software stack.

Is stack alignment to 16 bytes beneficial for X32?
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