Subject: Re: Status of ELF for sh3?
To: Marcus Comstedt <marcus@idonex.se>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-sh3
Date: 01/28/2001 15:36:51
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Marcus Comstedt wrote:

:   Todd> underscores.  Unless it's explicitly contradicted in the Super-H supplement
:   Todd> to the ELF ABI, this needs to be changed (and "damn other vendors"--this is
:   Todd> the MI ELF *standard*).
:
: While it's true that this need to be looked into, I don't believe that
: there's a real technical problem here.  The macros in
: <sys/cdefs_elf.h> should handle the underscore stuff "correctly" now.

The hack in <sys/cdefs_elf.h> MUST go away before making ELF the standard
object file format for sh3.  We've already sent patches to a lot of major
software packages (as well as libtool, which is embedded in many
applications) which assume that __ELF__ == has no leading underscores.

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