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Re: Unreviewed patches
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:38:31PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:48:47AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:15:21AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:12:35AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > > I am enclosing my proposal here.
> > >
> > > This is not a complete proposal. You don't specify what
> > > we're supposed to do with the other 63 bits that are not
> > > currently defined.
> > >
> > >
> > The linker should refuse processing the input if they are set.
> >
> > Here is the updated one.
> >
> >
> > H.J.
> > ----
> > I propose an optional property note section, .note.GNU-property, for relocatable files to describe some unique properties which linker has to take into account when processing the input files. The contents of this note section are:
> >
> > .section .note.GNU-property
> > .align 2
> > .long .L1 - .L0
> > .long .L3 - .L2
> > .long 1
>
> This number is already taken by ELF_NOTE_ABI (see .note.ABI-tag).
> Dunno if 2 or soemthing like 0x474e5500 is better.
>
But the section name is different. I see 1 be used at least by
NT_VERSION and NT_PRSTATUS.
H.J.