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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:56:36 +0200
From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To: Philip Reynolds <philip.reynolds@rfc-networks.ie>
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On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:39:45AM +0000, Philip Reynolds wrote:
[...]
> Does the magic number not then support multiple ABI's per system
> architecture, or is there some part of the puzzle I'm missing?
>=20
There's an EI_ABIVERSION byte following the EI_OSABI byte, which
is both documented in the elf(5) manpage, and is shown in the
``readelf -h'' output.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru@FreeBSD.org

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