Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:59:03 +0300 From: Chagin Dmitry <dchagin@freebsd.org> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@tutopia.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: ELF branding. looking to a ".note.ABI-tag" section Message-ID: <20090106195903.GA51780@dchagin.dialup.corbina.ru> In-Reply-To: <25454.95171.qm@web32702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <25454.95171.qm@web32702.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 09:38:35AM -0800, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > Hi; > > As the author of kern/118473 I think that ELF notes for brand-ELFing is a useless non standard hack. I do understand that we want to teach our linuxulator about GNU ELF notes, but why would we want to use them for FreeBSD binaries? > > If you follow the posting on the lists by John Polstra and ELF spec you will find we don't need ELF notes. There is also a thread in some binutils list that made me conclude the reason they chose for not using the standard way was "NIH". > > Pedro. > Hi, I don't think so. We already use this for native binaries. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/imgact_elf.c.diff?r1=1.181;r2=1.182 -- Have fun! chd
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