Elf Header change proposal

Alan Modra alan@linuxcare.com.au
Thu, 2 Nov 2000 00:11:11 +1100 (EST)


On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, John Marvin wrote:

> So, the bad news is that I wasted time writing an unecessarily long
> design proposal. The good news is that the only thing that needs to
> change is value in the e_ident[EI_OSABI] field, so that we can
> differentiate 64 bit HP-UX binaries from 64 bit Linux binaries.
> We should also change the field for 32 bit Linux also.

Some other bad news is that the change isn't quite trivial, due to not
wishing to break other bfd targets.  The good new is I've made the
change.  Compiling at the moment.

Alan Modra
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