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

Ian Lance Taylor ian@zembu.com
Tue Apr 11 23:28:00 GMT 2000


   Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 21:31:01 -0700
   From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

   On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 12:25:15AM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
   > Neither one is acceptable IMHO.  This is because both of them rely on
   > __FreeBSD__ being defined,

   Is there an easy to use symbol that tells what the target arch is?  I
   could #ifdef on that instead.

Using a #ifdef at all is wrong.  BFD is designed so that it can
support multiple targets simultaneously.  Rather than a #ifdef based
on the target, you must add a different target.

Ian


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