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Re: Linux-abi group


H.J,

I think we are fragmenting with too many standards and mailing lists. This new discussion group and eventually the resulting standards, all might be put under LSB http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/lsb.shtml

The Intro on LSB says: http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_5.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/elfintro.html

And thats what this proposal is intended for.

And we can use the LSB mailing list https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lsb-discuss for all discussions.

What do you think?

--
Supra


On 09-Feb-2016 08:46 AM, H.J. Lu via llvm-commits wrote:
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016, H.J. Lu wrote:

I was referring to program properties:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/generic-abi/fyIXttIsYc8

This looks more like an ELF topic to me, not really ABI.

Please discuss this on a GNU project list because it affects the
entire GNU project.


gABI is ELF and affects all users, including GNU project, of gABI.
Linux-abi discusses Linux-specific extensions to gABI. It is for tools
like compilers, assembler, linker and run-time.  It isn't appropriate
for any GNU project list.

I find it extremely unlikely that many well-thought-out extensions would
be appropriate for GNU systems using the Linux kernel but not for GNU
systems using Hurd or other kernels - the only such cases would be for
things very closely related to kernel functionality.  There is a strong
presumption that toolchain configuration should apply to all GNU systems
rather than being specific to GNU/Linux without good reason.


Most of extensions aren't Linux kernel specific.  But some extensions
will require kernel support to function properly.




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