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Date:      Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:33:23 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Robert Drehmel <robert@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/svr4 svr4_sysvec.c
Message-ID:  <20020709173323.GA24994@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200207091459.g69ExRxg017714@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200207091459.g69ExRxg017714@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 07:59:27AM -0700, Robert Drehmel wrote:
> robert      2002/07/09 07:59:27 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/compat/svr4      svr4_sysvec.c 
>   Log:
>   The comment marked with XXX was right: emulate SVR4 for
>   ELF binaries branded with ELFOSABI_SYSV, this is reported
>   to work and brandelf(1) puts this type into files if "SVR4"
>   was specified.

What was the report?  Our SVR4 emulation was written around Solaris-x86.
So using the Solaris branding is probably more proper.  Note that
ELFOSABI_SYSV is the same value as UN-branded.  This has implications I'm
not sure you thought about.

Considering I'm the one that added the XXX comment:
   1.11         (obrien   18-Apr-00):   ELFOSABI_SOLARIS, /* XXX Or should we
You might have wanted me to review this change.

Also the SVR4 compat code will be used much more by our sparc64 platform
than i386 one -- and there it will be used exclusively for Solaris
binaries.

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