Hi Yuri, Mike, On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 February 2010 01:08:03 Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Yuri Kozlov wrote: >> > From elf.5: >> > e_ident This array of bytes specifies to interpret the file, ... >> > EI_BRAND Start of architecture identification. >> > >> > Value for EI_BRAND is not defined in the linux/elf.h (and gabi too). >> > Maybe add some comment, that is for *BSD only? >> >> You've done a patch or two to the elf.5 page in the past. Are you able >> to comment on the below? I confirmed Yuri's statement: EI_BRAND isn't >> in glibc 2.11 source. > > not being the glibc source isnt terribly important imo (since there are a lot > of things glibc's elf.h doesnt define), but the fact it isnt in the gabi as > Yuri notes seems pretty important: > http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/ch4.eheader.html > > whether it be marked as non-standard (and then we research what random OSes > actually define it) or simply drop it, either makes sense to me. the latter > is obviously less work :). > -mike Okay -- I simply removed the test, as shown in the patch below. Okay? Cheers, Michael --- a/man5/elf.5 +++ b/man5/elf.5 @@ -347,9 +347,12 @@ The value for .B EI_PAD will change in the future if currently unused bytes are given meanings. -.TP -.BR EI_BRAND -Start of architecture identification. +.\" As reported by Yuri Kozlov and confirmed by Mike Frysinger, EI_BRAND is +.\" not in GABI (http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/ch4.eheader.html) +.\" It looks to be a BSDism +.\" .TP +.\" .BR EI_BRAND +.\" Start of architecture identification. .TP .BR EI_NIDENT The size of the -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
