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Re: binutils ld and new PT_GNU_PROPERTY segment

Hi,

On Wed, 2020-02-19 at 03:39 -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 2:58 AM Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-02-18 at 18:31 -0800, Fangrui Song wrote:
> > >  From what I can see, neither the Linux kernel nor glibc uses
> > > PT_GNU_PROPERTY.
> > > glibc/sysdeps/x86/dl-prop.h parses PT_NOTE.
> > 
> > That is my impression too.
> 
> See:
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11285409/
> 
> It is for both x86 and arm64.

So that is not upstream in the mainline kernel? Why can't that patch
use the existing PT_NOTE segment? That would make it compatible with
existing binaries that don't have this PT_GNU_PROPERTY program header.

Thanks,

Mark
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