> Well, it frightens me a bit to add something called "LINUX" in all GNU > systems: what if somebody adds something there that we don't want to add > to some GNU system? What if we want to add something for GNU/Hurd that > Linux people do not want to add?
The ABI is the value, not the name. > I know that the dynamic linker is currently mostly shared, but the very > fact that ELFOSABI_LINUX and ELFOSABI_HURD are already separate in > binutils worries me. It also worries me that people changed binutils in such ways without consulting the actual authorities on GNU and Hurd ABIs.