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Re: [PATCH/RFA] Mark arm-*-netbsdelf* binaries as ELFOSABI_NETBSD

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:16:06AM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 00:53, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:21:51PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > > You can take ELFOSABI_ARM
> > > to mean your existing ABI, and assume that at the point binutils adopts
> > > an "official" ARM EABI it will start writing EI_OSABI as zero.
> > 
> > Binutils should not be messing with a non-0 value.  And will upset us on
> > FreeBSD if Binutils starts to.
> 
> I don't understand what you mean.  Are you saying that you want GNU
> binutils to go on using ELFOSABI_ARM in perpetuity?

Nope.  But rather that EI_OSABI should not be zeroed when it has a
non-zero value.  All FreeBSD binaries have EI_OSABI set to non-zero (ie,
SVR4).
 
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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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