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From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca>
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Subject: [parisc-linux] Why do we relax e_ident[EI_OSABI] in gdb?
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parisc-linux,

Anyone have some ideas why we have this patch in gdb, and thus relax the 
EI_OSABI check?

--- gdb-5.2.cvs20020401/bfd/elf64-hppa.c~	Sun Mar 31 19:09:41 2002
+++ gdb-5.2.cvs20020401/bfd/elf64-hppa.c	Sat Apr 20 09:35:54 2002
@@ -372,7 +372,8 @@
   i_ehdrp = elf_elfheader (abfd);
   if (strcmp (bfd_get_target (abfd), "elf64-hppa-linux") == 0)
     {
-      if (i_ehdrp->e_ident[EI_OSABI] != ELFOSABI_LINUX)
+      if (i_ehdrp->e_ident[EI_OSABI] != ELFOSABI_LINUX &&
+          i_ehdrp->e_ident[EI_OSABI] != ELFOSABI_NONE)
 	return false;
     }
   else
--- gdb-5.2.cvs20020401/bfd/elf32-hppa.c~	Sun Mar 31 19:09:41 2002
+++ gdb-5.2.cvs20020401/bfd/elf32-hppa.c	Sat Apr 20 09:35:54 2002
@@ -1038,7 +1038,8 @@
   i_ehdrp = elf_elfheader (abfd);
   if (strcmp (bfd_get_target (abfd), "elf32-hppa-linux") == 0)
     {
-      if (i_ehdrp->e_ident[EI_OSABI] != ELFOSABI_LINUX)
+      if (i_ehdrp->e_ident[EI_OSABI] != ELFOSABI_LINUX &&
+          i_ehdrp->e_ident[EI_OSABI] != ELFOSABI_NONE)
 	return false;
     }
   else
===

c.