PowerPC binary tagging

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Tue Apr 17 02:24:00 GMT 2007


On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 08:45:44AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Has anyone thought about implementing this for PowerPC?  Do we have
> spare ELF header bits

Bad idea.  Once you start down this path, people will keep adding
bits.  You are guaranteed to run out of bits at some stage.

, or should we use a separate section?

This is better.  I'm not particularly keen on the idea though.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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