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Re: Patches to change ELFOSABI_MONTEREY to ELFOSABI_AIX.
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Patches to change ELFOSABI_MONTEREY to ELFOSABI_AIX.
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at valinux dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:53:51 -0800
- Cc: drepper at cygnus dot com, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com,gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200011242136.NAA29973@elmo.cygnus.com>
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:36:59PM -0800, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> : > #define ELFOSABI_ARM 129
> : >
> : > that should work shouldn't it ?
> :
> : You will break binary compatibility since the ld.so tests for this value.
>
> Ah, in which case maybe we should try to get
>
> #define ELFOSABI_ARM 97
>
> registered as a valid ELF gABI value ? How is this done ?
>
We can submit it. But I don't know if the name of ELFOSABI_ARM makes
any senses. Basically it is hard for the third party ELF tools.
to interpret ELFOSABI_ARM. How about we ask to change the gABI range
from 0 - 127 to 0 - 63 or 0 - 95?
--
H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)