On 11/27/2016 04:32 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 19 Nov 2016 11:13, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> On 18 November 2016 at 19:25, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> On 18 Nov 2016 08:25, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>>> On 11/17/2016 09:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>>>> for documenting the Elf{32,64}_Nhdr structure,
>>>>> the sections/segments that contain notes, and how to interpret them. I've
>>>>> been lazy and only included the GNU extensions here,
>>>>
>>>> Any chance you include the non-GNU stuff also? Or, failing that,
>>>> some clear statements at appropriate points about what is not
>>>> documented.
>>>
>>> the trouble i was running into is that the man pages says it documents
>>> the elf.h header, but the one installed by glibc doesn't have defines
>>> for all the non-GNU stuff. so if i put in details about the FreeBSD
>>> namespace, it'll have defines like NT_FREEBSD_THRMISC. none of those
>>> show up in the current elf.h though so people will get errors.
>>>
>>> i'm fine with that though if you are.
>>
>> Actually, it sounds like your original approach is best then.
>
> i'll send some patches to glibc and see if i can't get the defines merged.
> if so, i'll update the man page.
Okay. Thanks!
Cheers,
Michael
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