EI_ABIVERSION usage

[cgd@broadcom.com]

At Wed, 8 May 2002 11:08:54 +0000 (UTC), "Richard Earnshaw" wrote:
> We are in a similar situation here, we have a program executable that is 
> tied to its execution environment in some way: the ELF spec, sadly, has 
> nothing explicit to say about how this might be detected.

And it never really has.  8-)

That's pretty much why Roland and I went with a PT_NOTE-based
mechanism used by NetBSD and glibc for ... many years now (and
seemingly adopted by FreeBSD since)...



cgd