From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14748 invoked by alias); 3 Aug 2012 16:46:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 14717 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Aug 2012 16:46:20 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from cheddar.halon.org.uk (HELO cheddar.halon.org.uk) (217.10.144.130) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:46:06 +0000 Received: from bsmtp by cheddar.halon.org.uk with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SxL0l-0006n0-5W; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:46:03 +0100 Received: from stemci01 by e102122-lin with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SxL0A-0004bS-HK; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:45:26 +0100 Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:46:00 -0000 From: Steve McIntyre To: Roland McGrath Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, libc-ports@sourceware.org Subject: Re: ARM hard-float ABI: add ldconfig flag value Message-ID: <20120803164526.GO24537@linaro.org> References: <20120727160941.GA13597@linaro.org> <20120802165658.GG24537@linaro.org> <20120802172843.AC5092C0DF@topped-with-meat.com> <20120802174900.GH24537@linaro.org> <20120802175430.CF1652C0DF@topped-with-meat.com> <20120802181352.GJ24537@linaro.org> <20120802182602.77E082C0A8@topped-with-meat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120802182602.77E082C0A8@topped-with-meat.com> X-attached: unknown User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact libc-ports-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-ports-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00029.txt.bz2 Hi Roland, On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:26:02AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: >> >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? > >Search around for ELFOSABI_GNU (previously called ELFOSABI_LINUX) >in libc and binutils. Thanks for that. Right, I see the ifunc stuff. I'm a little surprised to see this field being appropriated in this way, but OK... I understand it's not going to fly with any other uses. I'm looking into adding some extra flags for e_flags instead. Cheers, -- Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre@linaro.org Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs