Support Sun extensions in readelf?

Rainer Orth ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Wed Mar 10 13:11:00 GMT 2010


As in the case of the VER_FLG_INFO flag, Sun has specified and
implemented a couple of extensions to the ELF format and has clearly
documented them in their Linker and Libraries Guide:

	http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-0690/chapter6-46512?l=en&a=view

While I have no intention of supporting but a small subset of them in
gas and gld, it may be useful to at least allow readelf to understand
them in Sun as and/or Sun ld generated objects.  Would appropriate
patches likely be accepted if following the coding standards, or is
support for vendor extensions generally frowned up?

Nothing to happen immediately, just a question in advance of events :-)

Thanks.
	Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University



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