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Re: ARM hard-float ABI: add ldconfig flag value
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> How about the following patch? I've discussed this approach with the
> ARM ABI folks and they're happy to go with it, I hope you are
> too. Rather than use up any more of the e_flags flag space, I'm
> proposing to re-use some of the older flags as Roland suggested. The
> old flags
>
> #define EF_ARM_SOFT_FLOAT 0x200
> #define EF_ARM_VFP_FLOAT 0x400
>
> are only valid for really old versions of the ARM ABI, so for EABI v5
> (the current ABI) I'm proposing to add new names for the same values:
>
> #define EF_ARM_EABI_FLOAT_SOFT 0x200
> #define EF_ARM_EABI_FLOAT_HARD 0x400
>
> which will specifically only be used with that ABI version.
Could you please point to a public statement from the ARM ABI maintainers
about the reservation of these values for the next ABI revision, and the
semantics being assigned to them?
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Joseph S. Myers
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