On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 01:03:38PM +0100, Mans Rullgard wrote:
>
>If directly examining the attributes section is out of the question,
>perhaps the e_flags field would be a better option than OSABI, being
>clearly designated as a collection of flags and also having more bits
>currently unused.

That's my next fallback...

>Keep in mind that changing the ELF header will require an update to the
>ARM ELF specification, and is likely to cause compatibility problems
>with other toolchain vendors until they make the corresponding changes.
>Using existing sections does not have this problem.

We'll have to update the ARM ELF ABI docs, yes. This is expected, and
I'm discussing it with the ABI folks.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve McIntyre                                steve.mcint...@linaro.org
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs


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