Hi Paul, > Does this make any practical difference or fix any bugs, or is this > just for aesthetics?
There is talk of the other 32 bits of that word being used for a stack canary in a future ABI revision. So right now it is just cosmetic, but it could be important in the future. I guess it could be an issue for kgdb since the CR will be in the wrong spot on BE. Anton _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev