[PATCH] elf: Add declarations for BPF

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Tue Jun 7 19:10:00 GMT 2016


On 06/07/2016 02:07 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> The e_machine value is provisionary, but will serve for now.
> I want to use this value in elfutils and systemtap.  I will
> also propagate the value to llvm and their bpf backend.
> 
> The R_BPF_MAP_FD value is being used by llvm, although they are
> using the name R_X86_64_64, which is perhaps less than ideal.  ;-)

Who defines the e_machine values these days?

When does it become final? Before glibc 2.24 is released on August 1st?

I'm OK with the change, but worried about a final value.

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Cheers,
Carlos.



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