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Re: Treat ELFOSABI_NONE as ELFOSABI_LINUX in some places


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 05:16:06PM +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:12:56 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Not sure if this a toolchain bug or elfutils bug.  readelf from
> > binutils prints GNU_UNIQUE.
> 
> If not obvious binutils/readelf.c contains:
> 
> 	  if (binding == STB_GNU_UNIQUE
> 	      && (elf_header.e_ident[EI_OSABI] == ELFOSABI_GNU
> 		  /* GNU is still using the default value 0.  */
> 		  || elf_header.e_ident[EI_OSABI] == ELFOSABI_NONE))
> 	    return "UNIQUE";

So I think this is a toolchain bug. It is nice of binutils to
accept STB_GNU_UNIQUE with the wrong EI_OSABI, but I don't think
you can rely on all tools being so lenient.

Cheers,

Mark

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