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Re: [parisc-linux] Use of the EI_OSABI field
- To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at valinux dot com>
- Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Use of the EI_OSABI field
- From: "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>
- Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 12:28:40 -0800
- Cc: Alan Modra <alan at linuxcare dot com dot au>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>, John Marvin <jsm at udlkern dot fc dot hp dot com>, parisc-linux at puffin dot external dot hp dot com, parisc-linux at thepuffingroup dot com, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: The NUXI BSD group
- References: <20001121165327.A12804@valinux.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011221258270.16860-100000@front.linuxcare.com.au> <20001121191129.A4978@valinux.com>
- Reply-To: obrien at FreeBSD dot org
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:11:29PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> When I was at the IA64 ABI meeting yesterday, we were looking at the
> EI_OSABI issue. Everyone at the IA64 ABI meeting agreed that what
> Ulrich and I had said was the correct understanding.
>
> "The e_ident[EI_OSABI] value identifies the operating system and ABI
> to which the object is targeted" just means if the e_ident[EI_OSABI]
Then is this *extremely* misleading text going to be changed???
"the operating system and" needs to be deleted in the _official_
_published_ specification.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)