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Re: [PATCH,HURD] Recognize GNU/Hurd-specific binaries
> Well, it frightens me a bit to add something called "LINUX" in all GNU
> systems: what if somebody adds something there that we don't want to add
> to some GNU system? What if we want to add something for GNU/Hurd that
> Linux people do not want to add?
The ABI is the value, not the name.
> I know that the dynamic linker is currently mostly shared, but the very
> fact that ELFOSABI_LINUX and ELFOSABI_HURD are already separate in
> binutils worries me.
It also worries me that people changed binutils in such ways without
consulting the actual authorities on GNU and Hurd ABIs.