Error in output of readelf (and HP brokenosity)

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Wed Aug 21 04:05:00 GMT 2002


Hi Ross,

> It looks like readelf won't find HPUX OS specific dynamic types
> because they are all based on OLD_DT_LOOS, can readelf
> checks against DT_LOOS, which is greater than all the HP types.
> Now, we can state that HPUX is broken but should we hack readelf
> to cope with this, hassle HP to fix their code or simply accept accept
> that current state of affairs is broken beyond repair.

We should be able to allow readelf to detect the report these values -
there is similar support for the old Solaris values.  Can you provide
a list of values, names and descriptions for the HP/UX codes please ?

Cheers
        Nick



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