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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