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Re: PATCH: PR binutils/3826: elf_object_p can't tell freebsd object file from standard ELF object file
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:08:25PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> >
> > That is enirely reasonable to reject such object file since it may
> > contain info we don't know how to handle properly. If we can handle
>
> I disagree. We ought to try our best to handle an object file with
> an unexpected OSABI, particularly if the unexpected value is
> ELFOSABI_NONE.
>
It is the other way around. GNU linker can handle ELFOSABI_NONE. I
believe it is OK to reject an ELF file with an unexpected OSABI, which
isn't ELFOSABI_NONE, and we don't know how to handle it properly.
H.J.