Re: [PATCH] rs6000: Add ABI and libgcc support for C23 _BitInt [PR117584]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 06:20:10PM +0530, Manjunath Matti wrote:
> > Isn't ELF v2 maintained in https://github.com/OpenPOWERFoundation/ELFv2-ABI
> > ?
> 
> This is absolutely the location that PowerPC ABI was maintained, but
> unfortunately the OpenPower Foundation stopped updating this document 4-6
> years ago.
> 
> Now IBM has started to form a team (guys from IBM) to maintain/update this
> ABI document.
> 
> There are a lot of things that we want to go into this document.
> 
> To name a few (1) Dense Math Facility (2) float16 (3)Bitint (4)MMA ..
> 
> The good news is that Michael is part of that team, if he approves this
> patch it will be good to go.
> 
> I will soon post the v2 of this patch, with changes recommended by Mike.

Ah, ok, in that case at least from my side ordering of the psABI changes
before the GCC commit is not necessary as long as there is a clear agreement
on what changes to the psABI you want to do and that there is no risk of
it being changed after GCC 17 is released in an incompatible way.

	Jakub