Re: [opensuse-buildservice] Re: [RFC] Is there any plan to add ILP32 support for aarch64?

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> writes:

Eh? The 64-bit "STD" instruction can be used in an ELF32 file on a ppc64 system.

Nothing stops you from putting random instructions in a binary.

This is possible because PPC does not (appear) to know different CPU modes.

Read about the SF/CM bit in the MSR register.

i586 however, is one. It has a different e_machine field in the ELF header, for one,

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