Re: A symbol version patch for glibc 2.x compatibility

["David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:26:37AM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> an OS vendor is free to add its own extensions. When you do it in
> the ABI incompatible way such that the other ABI compliant ELF tools
> may misprocess it, you should set the EI_OSABI bits.

In farther thinking about this, I'm wondering why an EI_OSABI value for
Linux(3) was registered and why SCO handed out all the values they did,
if just about everybody shouldn't be setting EI_OSABI.  Is ELFOSABI_LINUX
or ELFOSABI_HURD used by anyone?

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)