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.