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Re: diff for setting osabi on elf headers

To: Pedro Bastos <pbastos@rdc.puc-rio.br>
Subject: Re: diff for setting osabi on elf headers
From: Thorsten Glaser <tg-2003m@netcologne.de>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:19:01 +0000 (UTC)
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
References: <20030510192427.GA6998@nano.uint8t.org>
Reply-By: Sun Apr 1 23:42:37 UTC 2001

begin  electrogrammati illius Pedro Bastos

>the following patch changes bfd's function responsible for preparing elf
>headers, so that it sets the osabi field to ELFOSABI_OPENBSD.

AFAIK that field was never intended to be used for that purpose,
since ELF was never designed to have two different OSes on one
architecture - it makes it basically binary incompatible (see
also elf2olf).

Hint: we have an ABI Tag now, see src/lib/csu/common_elf/os-note-elf.h

//Thorsten
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