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Re: [parisc-linux] Use of the EI_OSABI field

On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 12:28:40PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:11:29PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > When I was at the IA64 ABI meeting yesterday, we were looking at the
> > EI_OSABI issue. Everyone at the IA64 ABI meeting agreed that what
> > Ulrich and I had said was the correct understanding.
> > 
> > "The e_ident[EI_OSABI] value identifies the operating system and ABI
> > to which the object is targeted" just means if the e_ident[EI_OSABI]
> 
> 
> Then is this *extremely* misleading text going to be changed???
> "the operating system and" needs to be deleted in the _official_
> _published_ specification.
> 

I will bring this issue up to ia64 psABI and gABI.

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)
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