From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.valinux.com (smtp-fwd.valinux.com [198.186.202.196]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03582 for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 13:31:39 -0700 Received: from osmium.hdqt.valinux.com ([10.3.1.14] helo=valinux.com ident=mail) by mail.valinux.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) id 13zm10-0006QV-00; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 12:33:42 -0800 Received: by valinux.com (Postfix, from userid 561) id 3FE03AD11; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 12:33:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 12:33:40 -0800 From: "H . J . Lu" To: "David O'Brien" 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: <20001125123340.A25382@valinux.com> References: <20001121165327.A12804@valinux.com> <20001121191129.A4978@valinux.com> <20001125122840.D96258@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20001125122840.D96258@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 12:28:40PM -0800 List-ID: On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 12:28:40PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > 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. > I will bring this issue up to ia64 psABI and gABI. -- H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)