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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org,  "H . J . Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] elf: Add elf checks for main executable
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* Adhemerval Zanella:

> +static void
> +modify_abiversion (ElfW(Ehdr) *ehdr)
> +{
> +  ehdr->e_ident[EI_ABIVERSION] = LIBC_ABI_MAX;
> +}

So this is eventually controlled by the libc-abis file, right?

I *thought* that the consensus was that binutils should bump version if
absolute symbols are used.  But I don't see that in the absolute symbol
tests.

Is this really doing anything?

Thanks,
Florian