On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Joseph S. Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2013, Yufeng Zhang wrote:
>
>> > -#define GLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKER "/lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1"
>> > +#define GLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKER "/lib/ld-linux%{mabi=ilp32:32}-aarch64.so.1"
>>
>> To be more explicit and consistent, the name of the ILP32 loader shall have
>> 'ilp32' instead of '32'. The extension field shall be appended to 'aarch64',
>> separated by '_', and we should probably add the big-endian name at the same
>> time. With the extension fields sorted alphabetically, GLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKER
>> can be defined as:
>
> What's the use of a different name for big-endian? It's not as if Linux
> has ever supported running processes with a different endianness from the
> kernel....
And it is unrelated change to ILP32. Also we (Cavium) have big-endian
Linux running in the wild without the _be.
>
> --
> Joseph S. Myers
> jos...@codesourcery.com
