From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31196 invoked by alias); 18 Oct 2002 17:22:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31172 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2002 17:22:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO myware.akkadia.org) (24.221.190.179) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Oct 2002 17:22:11 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (myware.akkadia.org [192.168.7.70]) (authenticated bits=0) by myware.akkadia.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9IHMZDX021362; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:22:38 -0700 Message-ID: <3DB0435B.50000@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:22:00 -0000 From: Ulrich Drepper User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021014 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Modra CC: Matt Thomas , binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [Patch] sh64: Fix gas testsuite expected output References: <20021015202723.B26432@lucon.org> <002701c274ce$0434cf50$6301a8c0@wren> <20021015223217.A28658@lucon.org> <000a01c274d8$7c7e5fd0$6301a8c0@wren> <20021015230020.A29100@lucon.org> <20021015233936.A29638@lucon.org> <20021016181722.U22176@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> <20021016061625.A2765@lucon.org> <20021017003304.Z22176@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> <5.1.1.6.2.20021016094138.08e12d78@3am-software.com> <20021018182622.E12895@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20021015202723.B26432@lucon.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.65.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00436.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alan Modra wrote: > I believe the real test for a change in OSABI or ABIVERSION is: > Will a consumer of ELF files, such as a linker, that properly handles > ELF files conforming to the gABI and relevant psABI, be able to > properly handle your particular ELF files? As said many times, yes, this is the only use for this field. All other marking of an ELF file must be done with other means and the method agreed on a looong time ago is a special note segment. - -- - --------------. ,-. 444 Castro Street Ulrich Drepper \ ,-----------------' \ Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `--------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9sENb2ijCOnn/RHQRAq76AKDDHCcZHA1oIhSuteLT4ddj5yW/4QCghoy+ 6nCoSjWSmg1CEPg5QWm85Q4= =x2qI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----