Re: diff for setting osabi on elf headers

> AFAIK that field was never intended to be used for that purpose,

so what is it for ?

look at:
http://www.caldera.com/developers/gabi/latest/ch4.eheader.html#elfid

and you will see something like this:

<quoting>

Name      Value Purpose
EI_OSABI  7     Operating system/ABI identification

EI_OSABI:
Byte e_ident[EI_OSABI] identifies the OS - or ABI-especific ELF extensions used by this file. Some fields in other ELF structures have flags and values that have operating system and/or ABI specific meanings; the interpretation of those fields is determined by the value of this byte.

Name             Value Meaning
ELFOSABI_NONE    0     No extensions or unspecified

millert's point was perfectly correct, that was not the right place to do such a change, but i still think it should be made (somewhere else, of course).

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-p. Received on Tue May 13 11:52:44 2003