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Re: ARM hard-float ABI: add ldconfig flag value


Hi Roland,

On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:26:02AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> >That may have been the original intent of the ELF spec.  But on GNU systems
>> >this field has been coopted for purposes that are specific only to the GNU
>> >dynamic linker (and linker), not to any machine or operating system.
>> 
>> Can you point me at any docs or code for that, please? 
>
>Search around for ELFOSABI_GNU (previously called ELFOSABI_LINUX)
>in libc and binutils.

Thanks for that.

Right, I see the ifunc stuff. I'm a little surprised to see this field
being appropriated in this way, but OK... I understand it's not going
to fly with any other uses. I'm looking into adding some extra flags
for e_flags instead.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve McIntyre                                steve.mcintyre@linaro.org
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs


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