Re: [PATCH] elf: Add declarations for BPF

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On 08 Jun 2016 16:22, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 06/08/2016 03:43 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-06-08 at 15:33 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> >> How did we get a temporary value without knowing who to contact? :}
> > 
> > The glibc elf/elf.h file says how to construct one, and rth knows
> > l33t-speak! :)
> > 
> >         /* If it is necessary to assign new unofficial EM_* values,
> >         please
> >            pick large random numbers (0x8523, 0xa7f2, etc.) ... */
> >         
> >         #define EM_BPF         0xeb9f
> > 
> > Personally I like rth's suggestion best.
> > But an "official" number would be fine too of course.
> 
> If it's an unofficial EM_* value, why check it into glibc upstream?
> 
> Lets just wait until we get the final value and avoid any problems?

agreed ... i think we're past the point in general where glibc needs to
get early values in order to make progress.
-mike

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