[parisc-linux] Use of the EI_OSABI field

David O'Brien obrien@FreeBSD.org
Sat, 25 Nov 2000 12:28:40 -0800


On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:11:29PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> When I was at the IA64 ABI meeting yesterday, we were looking at the
> EI_OSABI issue. Everyone at the IA64 ABI meeting agreed that what
> Ulrich and I had said was the correct understanding.
> 
> "The e_ident[EI_OSABI] value identifies the operating system and ABI
> to which the object is targeted" just means if the e_ident[EI_OSABI]


Then is this *extremely* misleading text going to be changed???
"the operating system and" needs to be deleted in the _official_
_published_ specification.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)