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Re: RFC: Add PT_GNU_PROPERTY to cover .note.gnu.property section
- From: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, gnu-gabi at sourceware dot org, x86-64-abi <x86-64-abi at googlegroups dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:58:30 -0800
- Subject: Re: RFC: Add PT_GNU_PROPERTY to cover .note.gnu.property section
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> > I would strongly recommended to try harder to get consensus here. I do
> > not want to be a in a situation were we revise ABI again two years from
> > now.
>
> That is my hope. PT_GNU_PROPERTY is our consensus so far.
As you might expect, I support this new program header. Ideally, I'd
have liked to replace the input SHT_NOTE sections with
SHT_GNU_PROPERTY sections and dispense with all the note section
overhead, but I'll take this as a compromise.
-cary