Re: Has anyone looked at ELF 4.1?

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>]

   From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
   Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 07:19:38 -0700 (PDT)

   Has anyone looked at ELF 4.1? It is at

   http://www.sco.com/products/layered/develop/devspecs/

   It is quite interesting. It has something we have talked about a few
   month back.

I assume you are referring to EI_OSABI and EI_ABIVERSION.  (Or do you
mean something else?  Why must you be so cryptic?)

As I read it, it's a bit different from the OLF proposal.  SCO is
defining EI_OSABI as indicating whether the file conforms to the
standard ELF format.  A value of 0 (ELFOSABI_SYSV) indicates that the
file does conform.  For EI_ABIVERSION, a conforming application must
use 0.  Our files do conform to the specification (I hope), so it is
correct for us to use 0 for both.

However, we could perhaps ask registry@sco.com to define
ELFOSABI_LINUX, and define that as being the same as the standard, but
using the Linux API.  Similarly for other free operating systems.

Ian