re: ELF psABI definition for VAX?

matthew green <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Joseph Koshy writes:
> Hello Anders,
>
> jk> Where may I find the definition of the processor-specific ELF ABI for
> jk> the VAX architecture?
>
> am> it do not exist any docs of this AFAIK :-)
>
> I see.
>
> am> And actually it is not much to document.  The relocations maybe?
> am> The ELF implementation was written by Matt Thomas many years ago.
>
> am> What are you more specifically thinking about?
>
> I am writing tests for Elftoolchain's handling of VAX-related symbols, and
> am looking for ABI-related reference documentation.

unfortunately, i don't recall ever seeing a document for it,
but reading src/libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/vax/ and vax/elf_machdep.h
gives what appears to be almost all the details:

 - caller/callee same as a.out

 - 11 reloc types defined, but only 6 appear to be used (including
   "NONE")


would be nice if someone wrote a basic doc :-)


.mrg.
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