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Re: A symbol version patch for glibc 2.x compatibility
- To: hjl at valinux dot com
- Subject: Re: A symbol version patch for glibc 2.x compatibility
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>
- Date: 13 Nov 2000 10:30:45 -0800
- CC: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20001112115208.A7444@valinux.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 11:52:08 -0800
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com>
I guess people may get confused by what EI_OSABI is used for. It is
used to tell the ELF tools that if you see the none 0 EI_OSABI field
and you don't know what that operating system and ABI do, don't bother.
It is certainly not the case for Linux.
To belabor my point: is this written down anywhere, or do we have to
ask you and Ulrich for clarification whenever we deal with the new
changes to the ELF standard?
Ian