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Re: Generic object attributes patch
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:09:19PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> In <http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-06/msg00156.html>, I proposed
> making the ARM EABI object attribute tagging mechanism available on all
> ELF targets, as a means of providing both GNU-specific and ABI-defined
> information about objects, sections or symbols, and merging it on linking,
> without the limitations of the other ad hoc mechanisms such as special
> sections or ELF header flags used on various targets. There were no
> objections to this proposal and some support for using it for x86 and
> x86_64.
>
Does it support attributes in DSO? I thought you would need
a new program segment type for it.
H.J.