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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:11:21 +1100
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:26:42 -0800 (PST) Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:
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> ARM-OABI also defines them, dunno why. Rmk?

I suspect that OABI stands for old ABI and the alignment of 64 bit
quantities changed at some point.  I am pretty sure that arm is only
32bit, but I assume that they need backward compatibility for the old
ABI's alignment.

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