On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Jan Beulich <jbeul...@novell.com> wrote: >>>> On 30.12.10 at 21:02, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.to...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Here is the ILP32 psABI: >> >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/ilp32/ >> > > I think it is a gross misconception to tie the ABI to the ELF class of > an object. Specifying the ABI should imo be done via e_flags or > one of the unused bytes of e_ident, and in all reality the ELF class > should *only* affect the file layout (and 64-bit should never have > forbidden to use 32-bit ELF containers; similarly 64-bit ELF objects > may have uses for 32-bit architectures/ABIs, e.g. when debug > information exceeds the 4G boundary). >
I agree with you in principle. But I think it should be done via a new attribute section, similar to ARM. -- H.J.
