On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 01:28:34AM +0000, David Holland wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 07:17:05PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > > What's the purpose of ELFOSABI_NETBSD on NetBSD? > > Short answer: the OSABI field in the elf header was added way too late > for it to be widely adopted or honored. :-/
Longer answer: the OSABI field means that the platform is not honoring the generic ABI definition. The only system I know that widely sets it unconditionally is FreeBSD. Joerg