Re: A symbol version patch for glibc 2.x compatibility

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at valinux dot com>]

> That said, I do not think it would be incorrect to set the EI_OSABI
> field to ELFOSABI_LINUX when the binutils are configured for a
> GNU/Linux target.

That may be true. However, we, Linux, use elf_i386. I don't see we
need to change. We have told David how to tell a Linux binrary from
a special ".note.ABI-tag" section. We even did this in ld:

  /* Decide which segment the section should go in based on the
     section name and section flags.  We put loadable .note sections
     right after the .interp section, so that the PT_NOTE segment is
     stored right after the program headers where the OS can read it
     in the first page.  */

# objdump -h /bin/ls 
...
Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .interp       00000013  080480f4  080480f4  000000f4  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  1 .note.ABI-tag 00000020  08048108  08048108  00000108  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA

I don't understand why David kept asking for Linux to change.

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