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Re: [PATCH/RFA] Generic OS ABI handling
* Jason R Thorpe writes:
> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:11:32PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>> What I think you might be thinking about is the Hurd (the GNU Hurd),
>> which is just a set of libraries, utilities and translators. But this
>> is not the operating system.
> But from GDB's perspective, GNU using Hurd is different from GNU
> using Linux. Hence they have different OS ABI values, and different
> names corresponding to those values.
Yes, but the operating system is not called "GNU Hurd", so either
rename it to GNU. And in either case GNU using the Hurd is still just
GNU. Calling it GNU Hurd is confusing as the GNU Hurd project is
called by that name.
Cheers,
--
Alfred M. Szmidt