RFH: Annotating ELF binaries

Tristan Gingold gingold@adacore.com
Fri Nov 4 15:13:00 GMT 2016


> On 04 Nov 2016, at 16:02, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
>  We (the tools team at Red Hat) are working on a project to add
>  annotations to ELF binaries, so that we can answer various questions
>  about them.  We have set up a wiki page about the project here:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Toolchain/Watermark#Markup_for_ELF_objects
> 
>  We would very much like this to be something more than just an
>  internal project, and so we are reaching out to you for your opinions,
>  suggestions and advice.  If you are interested in being able answer
>  questions such as 'how was this function compiled ?' or 'is this
>  library compatible with this application ?' then please take a minute
>  to have a look at the proposal.

This will generalise attributes used by some architectures (ppc, arm), won't it ?



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