On 08/09/2017 05:24 PM, H.J. Lu wrote: > On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Kostya Serebryany <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I believe this would only be an output bit, but I'm not sure how it >>>> would be wired into binutils. Kostya, do you know any details about >>>> how AddressSanitizer might be able to create this ELF note? >> >> I don't, hopefully H.J's suggestion works. >> Will it be backward compatible? >> (i.e. will the binaries built in the new way work on the old kernels?) >> >> > > Yes, it is backward compatible by design.
... only as long as the semantics implied by the flags are hints that can be ignored. -- Cheers, Carlos.

