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Re: PowerPC binary tagging


Alan Modra wrote:
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 08:45:44AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
Has anyone thought about implementing this for PowerPC?  Do we have
spare ELF header bits

Bad idea. Once you start down this path, people will keep adding bits. You are guaranteed to run out of bits at some stage.

, or should we use a separate section?

This is better. I'm not particularly keen on the idea though.

Or a note? I'm not keen on a section. NetBSD already knows how to search for notes so making it search for a powerpc note wouldn't be that hard.


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