From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA02859 for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 13:28:25 -0700 Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 12:28:40 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "H . J . Lu" Cc: Alan Modra , Ulrich Drepper , John Marvin , parisc-linux@puffin.external.hp.com, parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Use of the EI_OSABI field Message-ID: <20001125122840.D96258@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20001121165327.A12804@valinux.com> <20001121191129.A4978@valinux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20001121191129.A4978@valinux.com>; from hjl@valinux.com on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:11:29PM -0800 List-ID: 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)