PowerPC binary tagging

Matt Thomas matt@3am-software.com
Tue Apr 17 07:33:00 GMT 2007


Alan Modra wrote:
> 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.

Or a note?  I'm not keen on a section.  NetBSD already knows how to
search for notes so making it search for a powerpc note wouldn't be
that hard.



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