Multiarch interpreter names for traditional architectures

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Sun Feb 4 17:19:00 GMT 2018


On 02/04/2018 05:25 PM, Javier Serrano Polo wrote:
> Multiarch systems allow to run programs from other architectures. ELF
> executables for traditional architectures depend on interpreter names
> that may conflict with each other. For instance, it is complicated to
> run alpha programs on x86 systems.

Not if the kernel invokes the right emulator.  Why isn't it possible to 
arrange for that?

Considering this is an ABI break basically everywhere, you need to 
provide very good justification for doing this.

Thanks,
Florian



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