Re: toolchain/51238: ELF binaries don't carry ELFOSABI_NETBSD in their header

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/51238; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: toolchain/51238: ELF binaries don't carry ELFOSABI_NETBSD in
 their header
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 15:47:21 +0000

 On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 08:20:01AM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
  >  >  Last I checked we don't have the same syscall table as SVR4, except
  >  >  when compat_svr4 is in use, so we hardly have the same OS ABI.
  >  
  >  It is not about system calls. It is about the implemented ABI. That's
  >  what we follow, including stack alignment on i386 etc. Looking at
  >  FreeBSD, they had more than enough problems with requiring tagging with
  >  the OSABI. It is a crude and limited hack. Heck, if you don't want to
  >  parse PT_NOTE yourself, call file(1).
 
 So the "OS ABI" is not the OS ABI, but something akin to the ELF
 version?
 
 I suppose I shouldn't be surprised about ELF doing things wrong.
 
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 David A. Holland
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