From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Steve McIntyre <steve.mcintyre@linaro.org>
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 16:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1212031559110.30270@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121203154154.GF22509@einval.com>
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I expect this one to be more controversial and I'll understand if
> people don't want to accept it! It's a variation on the code that's in
> use today in Debian/Ubuntu to be able to distinguish between soft- and
> hard-float ABI libraries. In time, the new ELF flags will make this
> obsolete. Until that time, this adds a fallback for older binaries
> created before those flags went into binutils.
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.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-03 16:00 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 [this message]
2012-12-03 16:44 ` Steve McIntyre
2012-12-03 16:49 ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-12-03 16:54 ` Steve McIntyre
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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