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From: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
To: Steve McIntyre <steve.mcintyre@linaro.org>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org,    libc-ports@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: ARM hard-float ABI: add ldconfig flag value
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120802175430.CF1652C0DF@topped-with-meat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Steve McIntyre's message of  Thursday, 2 August 2012 18:49:01 +0100 <20120802174900.GH24537@linaro.org>

> >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.

> Exactly, those values are describing needed/used hardware, not ABI.

Then a new bit in that field seems like the best option to me.


Thanks,
Roland

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-02 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20120727160941.GA13597@linaro.org>
     [not found] ` <20120802165658.GG24537@linaro.org>
2012-08-02 17:28   ` Roland McGrath
2012-08-02 17:49     ` Steve McIntyre
2012-08-02 17:55       ` Roland McGrath [this message]
2012-08-02 18:14         ` Steve McIntyre
2012-08-02 18:26           ` Roland McGrath
2012-08-03 16:46             ` Steve McIntyre
2012-08-08 13:41               ` Steve McIntyre
2012-08-08 16:31                 ` Roland McGrath
2012-08-08 20:02                 ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-08-09  0:34                   ` Steve McIntyre
2012-08-09 11:10                     ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-08-09 13:21                       ` Steve McIntyre
2012-08-22 15:41                         ` Steve McIntyre
2012-08-22 16:13                           ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-08-23 15:37                             ` Steve McIntyre
2012-08-23 20:40                               ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-08-23 22:56                                 ` Steve McIntyre
2012-08-02 20:50     ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-08-03 17:04       ` Steve McIntyre

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