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Re: EP9312, Maverick Crunch fixes
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Cc: Petko Manolov <petkan at nucleusys dot com>,Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>, Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>,"binutils at sources dot redhat dot com" <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:19:52 -0500
- Subject: Re: EP9312, Maverick Crunch fixes
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402252124380.477@bender.nucleusys.com> <200402261020.i1QAKsE11277@pc960.cambridge.arm.com>
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:20:54AM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> Finally note that the current GNU way of marking attributes in an ARM
> binary is *very* broken and should really be considered to be deprecated
> (it's incompatible with the AAELF specification http://www.arm.com/products
> /DevTools/ABI.html, it's inextensible and it can't support 3-way
> attributes (eg set, clear, dontcare)).
Having just re-read AAELF, I don't see an alternative marking
technique. Am I correct that there isn't published one yet?
Ah, in the overview document I see:
Executable and, if appropriate, shared-object flags and conventions
for the following four generic execution environments (not described
in this issue of the base standard):
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer