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

Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
Mon Apr 8 03:27:00 GMT 2002


> In fact, if this is all you are interested in you could probably use
> EI_OSABI without introducing any new values.  You can take ELFOSABI_ARM
> to mean your existing ABI, and assume that at the point binutils adopts
> an "official" ARM EABI it will start writing EI_OSABI as zero.  (I still
> don't think it's a particularly good idea to use it for what you're
> proposing, but ...)

Hmm, I think it would be far better to set EI_OSABI to ELFOSABI_NETBSD 
now, thus indicating that these files don't really conform to the EABI.  
Then, when the transition to the conforming ABI happens, we can set the 
field to 0, or whatever the ARM EABI mandates.

R.



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