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Re: ARM hard-float ABI: add ldconfig flag value
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 10:54:30AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> >OSABI is used in a generic way and should not be used for machine-specific
>> >purposes.
>>
>> Are you sure? Various docs say that values above 64 are specifically
>> set aside for machine-specific values, hence why I'm looking at using
>> 65 and 66 here.
>
>That may have been the original intent of the ELF spec. But on GNU systems
>this field has been coopted for purposes that are specific only to the GNU
>dynamic linker (and linker), not to any machine or operating system.
Can you point me at any docs or code for that, please? I can see
existing code already in glibc that uses the ELF-defined
machine-specific space, hence I'm a little surprised to see you say
this. OSABI is exactly what's been suggested by the ABI folks in ARM.
Cheers,
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