PATCH: Support VER_FLG_INFO in readelf
Ian Lance Taylor
iant@google.com
Tue Mar 2 20:46:00 GMT 2010
Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:
> Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> writes:
>
>> I suppose the changes to elfcpp and gold are OK. They seem kind of
>> useless, though, since the is_info_ field will never be set to true.
>> What would you expect to cause that field to be true?
>
> Nothing at the moment. Unless someone can verify that executables with
> the VER_FLG_INFO flag set continue to work ld-linux.so.2, I'm very
> reluctant to add code to either gld or gold to set that flag, perhaps
> unless targetting Solaris 2.
That's fine, but let me rephrase. What would you expect to cause that
field to be true if it were the right thing to do on GNU/Linux?
Ian
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