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Re: EI_ABIVERSION usage
- From: cgd at broadcom dot com
- To: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
- Cc: obrien at freebsd dot org,"Jason R Thorpe" <thorpej at wasabisystems dot com>,"Geoff Keating" <geoffk at redhat dot com>,binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 08 May 2002 08:53:39 -0700
- Subject: Re: EI_ABIVERSION usage
- References: <20020507174514.B31998@dragon.nuxi.com><200205081107.MAA17990@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com><mailpost.1020856134.17049@news-sj1-1>
At Wed, 8 May 2002 11:08:54 +0000 (UTC), "Richard Earnshaw" wrote:
> We are in a similar situation here, we have a program executable that is
> tied to its execution environment in some way: the ELF spec, sadly, has
> nothing explicit to say about how this might be detected.
And it never really has. 8-)
That's pretty much why Roland and I went with a PT_NOTE-based
mechanism used by NetBSD and glibc for ... many years now (and
seemingly adopted by FreeBSD since)...
cgd