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

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 09:18:33PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> There is no binutils change needed.  Create a .note section and put an
> appropriate record for the OS in it.
...
 
> Define ABI_TAG to something like
> #define ABI_TAG 0,2,0,0

This indead would have been the best way to handle this, but moving
FreeBSD to this scheme would create a binary incompatibility.  Ie, once I
move FreeBSD 4.1 to a new Bintutils, binaries created under FreeBSD 4.1
would not be executable on FreeBSD 4.0.  That is not allowed in our
scheme of binary compatibility.  For FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT, I can probably
get away with the above method.
 
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-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)