On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: > Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> writes: > >> Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> writes: >> >>> Unfortunately, as far as I know, no such solution was ever adopted for >>> the x86 family. So this does not help your immediate problem, and will >>> not help it until somebody implements such an approach for x86. >> >> The Sun assembler, linker, and runtime linker implement this, cf. >> >> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-0690/chapter7-28?l=en&a=view >> >> Hope this helps. > > Sounds good to me. Anybody want to add this to the GNU tools? >
Not very interesting to Linux. We don't use hardware capability filters. However, it is nice to mark a binary which ISAs it uses. But it should be specified in the psABI. -- H.J.
