EI_ABIVERSION usage

[H . J . Lu]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:27:32AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:27:36AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > The runtime implementation is free to do whatever it wants. But it is not
> > the concern of binutils.
> 
> Turn that around (which I did in my last email) and lets see how people
> feel:
> 
>     Is there today, or is there planned to be functionality such that the
>     value of EI_OSABI and EI_ABIVERSION will cause a problem?

I think so, if you use them not for their intended purposes. I can image
some OSes may want to add some OS specific relocations and DT_XXXX.

> 
>     I.e., if the implementation does whatever it wants, is Binutils going
>     to get in the way.


H.J.