RFH: Annotating ELF binaries

[Tristan Gingold]

> On 04 Nov 2016, at 16:22, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tristan,
> 
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Toolchain/Watermark#Markup_for_ELF_objects
> 
>> This will generalise attributes used by some architectures (ppc, arm), won't it ?
> 
> Yes.  Or at least it would if implemented as currently proposed.  Maybe a better
> solution would be to only record attributes where they are not already covered by 
> some target specific solution.
> 
> Personally I would prefer a nice, generalised solution, but the current target 
> specific attributes are mandated by the particular ABIs and so presumably are not
> going to go away.

It would be nice to have self-describing properties: a property is compatible only with the same value or with values less or equal, or (even better) within a range.  So that a user can add properties without changing tools.  That would work only for some properties however.