Subject: Re: ELF OSABI byte (7)
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/02/2003 10:02:15
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 06:18:21PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

 > why it's 0 (SYSV) not 2 (NETBSD) in all ELF binaries. at least in 1.5.*?

The OSABI field is used to denote the interpretation of the ELF binary
itself, e.g. how the relocs work, etc.  Since NetBSD uses the SVR4 ABI
for this aspect of the ELF binaries, it is correct for this field to
be SYSV.

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