From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 43165 invoked by alias); 27 Nov 2018 13:52:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gnu-gabi-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: Sender: gnu-gabi-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 43134 invoked by uid 89); 27 Nov 2018 13:52:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Checked: by ClamAV 0.100.2 on sourceware.org X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*i:sk:xnVXr_S, H*f:sk:xnVXr_S, Hx-languages-length:543 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on sourceware.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 3 recipients X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:52:56 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 42EF43082190; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:52:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oldenburg.str.redhat.com (ovpn-117-114.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.117.114]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 03C465D75D; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:52:53 +0000 (UTC) From: Florian Weimer To: "H.J. Lu" Cc: Cary Coutant , Binutils , GNU C Library , gnu-gabi@sourceware.org, x86-64-abi@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: RFC: Linux gABI: Add a GNU_PROPERTY_BY_LINKER property References: <87ftvoouda.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (H. J. Lu's message of "Tue, 27 Nov 2018 05:40:36 -0800") Message-ID: <87k1kyhbki.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.15 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.47]); Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:52:55 +0000 (UTC) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-q4/txt/msg00022.txt.bz2 * H. J. Lu: >> just do it right? At this point, I don't really care if you keep on >> using SHT_NOTE for the properties in relocatable files, but please, >> let's use a proper PT_GNU_PROPERTY segment for executables. (Sorry, I >> promised to yield to the consensus, but the design keeps getting more >> complicated.) >> > > PT_GNU_PROPERTY isn't compatible with existing loaders. This needs > to be both forward and backward compatible. Which loaders? The kernel? Thanks, Florian