Re: ELF header files

[Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>]

On 12/03/2010 09:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  3 15:17, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> > On 12/03/2010 02:53 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > On 12/03/2010 02:15 PM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > is it possible to add some ELF header files to Newlib, or is this
> > > > undesirable?
> > > In general, everything which relies upon machine/toolchain internals is
> > > undesirable and is best avoided.
> > The GNU C library elf.h has everything in one file (e.g. relocation types for
> > various architectures).  Under BSD this architecture dependent stuff is split
> > up into different files.  It is possible to merge all these files into a big one.
> >
> > Is it possible to use the GNU C library elf.h?  It uses GPL v2.1+.
> I don't think it's a good idea to add elf.h or elf.h-like headers to
> newlib at all.  Newlib is often used within the same source tree as BFD,
> binutils, GCC and GDB.  Part of these source trees is the GNU elf.h file
> in the include subdir, parallel to the newlib subdir.  So the stuff is
> usually already available.  Apart from the fact that elf.h doesn't match
> the job description of a C library well, it would be a duplication of
> already available information.  This would not only lead to confusion,
> it would also require to maintain the same information in two places.
Sebastian.. why do you want to add it?

Ralf/Corinna..  assuming a legitimate need, where is the best
place to put something like this so it would be available to
an RTEMS based utility?

Right or wrong, on Linux, this is provided by glibc.
> Corinna


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