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Re: RFH: Annotating ELF binaries
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-help at sourceware dot org, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, devel at lists dot fedoraproject dot org
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 16:57:56 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFH: Annotating ELF binaries
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- References: <87h97n5lvl.fsf@redhat.com>
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> We (the tools team at Red Hat) are working on a project to add
> annotations to ELF binaries, so that we can answer various questions
> about them. We have set up a wiki page about the project here:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Toolchain/Watermark#Markup_for_ELF_objects
>
> We would very much like this to be something more than just an
> internal project, and so we are reaching out to you for your opinions,
> suggestions and advice. If you are interested in being able answer
> questions such as 'how was this function compiled ?' or 'is this
> library compatible with this application ?' then please take a minute
> to have a look at the proposal.
Wearing my Go hat, I observe that you are mixing together general
properties ("Which (architecture specific) ABI variant is in use in
object X?") with language-specific properties ("agree upon the format
of long double?"). I encourage a clear separation of those two
different kinds of notes.
Ian