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Philip Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 35 lines of wisdom included:
: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:39:45AM +0000, Philip Reynolds wrote:
: > [...]
: > > Does the magic number not then support multiple ABI's per system
: > > architecture, or is there some part of the puzzle I'm missing?
: > >
: > There's an EI_ABIVERSION byte following the EI_OSABI byte, which
: > is both documented in the elf(5) manpage, and is shown in the
: > ``readelf -h'' output.
:
: You misunderstood me.
:
: My question was why is there a need for a PT_NOTE section (which is
: a more convaluted way of branding and reading a brand of an elf
: binary) if the above sections exist?
Because PT_NOTE is more portable and flexible.
Warner
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