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Re: EI_ABIVERSION usage
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
- To: obrien at FreeBSD dot org
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 11:24:53 -0700
- Subject: Re: EI_ABIVERSION usage
- References: <20020507105419.D23330@dragon.nuxi.com>
- Reply-to: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>
> Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:54:19 -0700
> From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
> But then why are conforming applications required to use a 0 value?
Because conforming applications use the SVR4 ABI, which is fully
described in the ABI document including all the shared library names
and their exported public interfaces, and which (among other things)
disallows explicit system calls in executables.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>