On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:50:29AM -0500, Ed Maste via llvm-commits wrote: > On 8 February 2016 at 18:08, Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Feb 2016, H.J. Lu wrote: > > > >> >> I was referring to program properties: > >> >> > >> >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/generic-abi/fyIXttIsYc8 > >> > > >> > This looks more like an ELF topic to me, not really ABI. > >> > > >> > Please discuss this on a GNU project list because it affects the > >> > entire GNU project. > >> > > >> > >> gABI is ELF and affects all users, including GNU project, of gABI. > >> Linux-abi discusses Linux-specific extensions to gABI. It is for tools > >> like compilers, assembler, linker and run-time. It isn't appropriate > >> for any GNU project list. > > But the examples presented so far (STT_GNU_IFUNC, PT_GNU_RELRO etc.) > are relevant to GNU systems in general and are not Linux-specific.
Some of them are even useful outside GNU systems. Some others choices in recent years are at least somewhat questionable and a broader audience in the design would likely have made the design much more useful (i.e. the GNU hash format). Joerg
