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Re: diff for setting osabi on elf headers
In message <20030510200132.GA17574@nano.uint8t.org>
so spake Pedro Bastos (pbastos):
> i don't think it is backend specific. is it ? what i can perceive from bfd
> is that some backend functions (the one for hppa, for example) changes
> it according to the desired target, which in our case will always be
> openbsd.
The backend stuff is what sets OS-specific bits. It doesn't make sense
to put OpenBSD-specific stuff into the bfd generic elf code. That
just makes merging more difficult later on and of course, the FSF
would never buy back such a change.
- todd