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Re: Generic object attributes patch


On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:32:03AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> How much space are we talkng about? An entry in the program header
> only takes 56 byte for ELF64.  Why do you think none of ld.so of
> all ELF implementation will care about it? Kernel loader may also
> check the new program segment in the program header in executables.
> Since it is supposed to be a generic solution, we should cover all
> bases.

When someone has a use for it, we can add it.  I don't understand why
that's so complicated a suggestion.  I do not want to waste the RAM
across every binary on every system until there is at least some use
for it.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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