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Re: A symbol version patch for glibc 2.x compatibility
- To: obrien at FreeBSD dot org
- Subject: Re: A symbol version patch for glibc 2.x compatibility
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
- Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 12:12:17 -0800
- CC: hjl at valinux dot com, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20001111234523.A28829@valinux.com> <20001125035332.C58975@dragon.nuxi.com>
- Reply-to: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>
> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 03:53:32 -0800
> From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
> Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
> What should be the standard for using this PT_NOTE section method? Linux
> names the section ".note.ABI-tag", NetBSD ".note.ident". I made FreeBSD
> follow Linux with ".note.ABI-tag". Or does one search thru all the
> PT_NOTE type sections looking for a type of 0x01? Search all the PT_NOTE
> sections looking for a name string you recognize?
This betrays some fundamental confusion about the ELF object file
format. A program loader should not look at section names at all,
because they need not be there.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>