[PATCH/RFA] Mark arm-*-netbsdelf* binaries as ELFOSABI_NETBSD

[Philip Blundell]

On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 11:11, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> For a fully conforming ARM EABI implementation, this information will be 
> determined by looking at EF_ARM_EABI_VERSION (the top 8 bits of the 
> EF_FLAGS field).  So there's no need to mandate the setting of the 
> ELFOSABI field.

But the EI_OSABI field is what you look at in the first instance to
decide whether what you're dealing with is a fully-conforming ARM EABI
implementation.  If it is set to some strange value, you can't ascribe
any meaning at all to EF_FLAGS.

> BTW, who allocated ELFOSABI_ARM?  I'm fairly certain it wouldn't have been 
> ARM, 

It certainly wasn't ARM, and I don't think ELFOSABI_ARM was ever
codified by SCO either.  I don't remember who exactly made the choice of
97 as a value -- it might have been Nick, Uli, Pat, Scott or possibly
even me -- but at any rate it was just a GNU thing.

p.