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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com>
Cc: Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>,
	John Marvin <jsm@udlkern.fc.hp.com>,
	parisc-linux@puffin.external.hp.com,
	parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Use of the EI_OSABI field
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 12:28:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001125122840.D96258@dragon.nuxi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001121191129.A4978@valinux.com>; from hjl@valinux.com on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:11:29PM -0800

On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:11:29PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> When I was at the IA64 ABI meeting yesterday, we were looking at the
> EI_OSABI issue. Everyone at the IA64 ABI meeting agreed that what
> Ulrich and I had said was the correct understanding.
> 
> "The e_ident[EI_OSABI] value identifies the operating system and ABI
> to which the object is targeted" just means if the e_ident[EI_OSABI]


Then is this *extremely* misleading text going to be changed???
"the operating system and" needs to be deleted in the _official_
_published_ specification.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-25 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-21  5:47 [parisc-linux] Use of the EI_OSABI field John Marvin
2000-11-21 22:50 ` Alan Modra
2000-11-21 23:27   ` Ulrich Drepper
2000-11-22  0:13     ` Alan Modra
2000-11-22  0:31       ` Ulrich Drepper
2000-11-22  0:53       ` H . J . Lu
2000-11-22  3:03         ` Alan Modra
2000-11-22  3:11           ` H . J . Lu
2000-11-25 20:28             ` David O'Brien [this message]
2000-11-25 20:33               ` H . J . Lu
2000-11-22  3:18           ` Ulrich Drepper
2000-11-25 20:31             ` David O'Brien
2000-11-25 20:22     ` David O'Brien
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-22  8:52 John Marvin
2000-11-22 18:06 Cary Coutant

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