On 04/03/2012 11:53 AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>> Now, I wonder why the dynamic linker cannot figure out the ABI itself
>> > by means of using ELF flags or so?
>> > 
> There are no ELF flags for this in executables.  The attributes only
> apply to object files and anyway they are too expensive to decode at run
> time.

Isn't that the core problem, then?  We have incompatible libraries
and executables but they aren't marked as such.

Andrew.

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