From: Steve McIntyre <steve.mcintyre@linaro.org>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: libc-ports@sourceware.org,
Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>,
Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcroft@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Identify the hard-float ABI in older ARM binaries
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121203165323.GH12778@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1212031647420.30270@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:49:06PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
>> >As previously explained, it's not appropriate for the dynamic linker to
>> >examine the section view of the ELF file this way; the use of ELF header
>> >flags is the right approach.
>>
>> Does that apply to ldconfig as well as ld.so?
>
>I think so, yes; I'm not aware of any existing use of the section view of
>the file in ldconfig, although efficiency issues don't really apply there.
OK... So is there a good reason not to do this beyond "we've not done
this before", then?
(*not* trying to argue, but some clarity here would be appreciated!)
Cheers,
--
Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre@linaro.org
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-03 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-03 15:35 [PATCH] ARM: Tag ARM and AArch64 binaries in the ldconfig cache Steve McIntyre
2012-12-03 15:38 ` [PATCH] ARM: Check for the FLAG_ARM_LIBHF flag " Steve McIntyre
2012-12-03 15:42 ` [PATCH] ARM: Identify the hard-float ABI in older ARM binaries Steve McIntyre
2012-12-03 16:00 ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-12-03 16:44 ` Steve McIntyre
2012-12-03 16:49 ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-12-03 16:54 ` Steve McIntyre [this message]
2012-12-03 16:59 ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-12-03 17:11 ` Steve McIntyre
2012-12-03 15:59 ` [PATCH] ARM: Check for the FLAG_ARM_LIBHF flag in the ldconfig cache Joseph S. Myers
2012-12-03 16:32 ` Steve McIntyre
2012-12-03 15:44 ` [PATCH] ARM: Tag ARM libc6-dependent binaries with FLAG_ELF_LIBC6 Steve McIntyre
2012-12-03 16:00 ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-12-03 15:58 ` [PATCH] ARM: Tag ARM and AArch64 binaries in the ldconfig cache Joseph S. Myers
2012-12-03 16:31 ` Steve McIntyre
2013-01-09 2:14 ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-01-09 13:50 ` Steve McIntyre
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