Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.2.2 and binary compatibility

["Roger Burrows" <anodyne@cyberus.ca>]

Hi Andreas,
On 24 Nov 2007 at 12:37, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr> writes:
> 
> > There is a well-known ABI for calling TOS/MiNT.
> 
> This interface should be compatible with gcc's 16-bit ABI.
> 
> > But is there a standard ABI for internal data structures alignment, as
> > well as function calls, eventually across the static libraries ?
> > Is GCC 2.95 the de-facto standard ?
> 
> AFAIK all pre-existing C compilers on the Atari were using 16 bit ints
> and gcc was the first one also offering a 32-bit ABI, thus being the one
> which defined it.
> 

I had thought that Lattice C was the first, but after a quick look on the net 
it seems that GCC v1.30(!) was ported to the ST sometime in 1988, so that beats 
Lattice C v5 by about 5 years ...

Roger