On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:26:44AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:40:07AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > Getting rid of .note[.ABI-tag] will interfere with ELF branding.
> >
> > How will it do so?
>
> This is the ELF ABI standard-approved way of doing ELF branding:
>
> Section Headers:
> [Nr] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al
> [ 2] .note.ABI-tag NOTE 08048110 000110 000018 00 A 0 0 4
>
> with the source of this (for FreeBSD native binaries) being
> src/lib/csu/common/crtbrand.c.
>
> See http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/elf-notes.html for more
> information.
Thanks, but my patch doesn't seem to touch .note.ABI-tag, only .note
Kris
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