Thank you for the reply, I was just curious.
On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 04:21, Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 5:28 AM George Brown <321.geo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> It seems this ELF note was used for the now dead compat_linux feature.
>> Aside from compat systems in other operating systems that may wish to
>> identify OpenBSD binaries does this note have any other active uses?
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> The point of the note (and/or the OS/ABI field in the ELF header) is to
> permit portable ELF tools to identify how to interpret OS-specific values,
> those in the OS-ranges for types, for example. Not inserting _some_
> identifying factor is basically doing an embrace-and-extend on ELF and
> actively hostile to portability of tooling.
>
> If you find that ELF note obnoxious, just fix the linkers to instead set the
> ELF ABI field correctly. As I understand it, the 'go' tool chain has done
> that for years. It's really the better choice for this, would take less
> space and be faster to process.
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> Philip Guenther
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