Advice on the prefered way to brand ELF binaries as needed on FreeBSD

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:50:59PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> 
> Why invent new thing when EI_OSABI is available?

That would have worked very well, but unfortunately FreeBSD has already
taken the "string in the ELF header" branding approach.  To change now
would create binary imcompatabilites I'm not sure is easy for us to do.

I'll evaluate the impact of a using EI_OSABI instead of the branding we
do now.  However, with out the branding, Bintuils will not support
FreeBSD 3.x and 4.x out of the box.
 
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-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)