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Re: Advice on the prefered way to brand ELF binaries as needed on FreeBSD

To: obrien at FreeBSD dot org
Subject: Re: Advice on the prefered way to brand ELF binaries as needed on FreeBSD
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>
Date: 11 Apr 2000 23:28:16 -0700
CC: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
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   Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 21:31:01 -0700
   From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

   On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 12:25:15AM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
   > Neither one is acceptable IMHO.  This is because both of them rely on
   > __FreeBSD__ being defined,

   Is there an easy to use symbol that tells what the target arch is?  I
   could #ifdef on that instead.

Using a #ifdef at all is wrong.  BFD is designed so that it can
support multiple targets simultaneously.  Rather than a #ifdef based
on the target, you must add a different target.

Ian

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