From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>,
binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFA] Define various OS/ABI note types
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 16:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020507165750.A31998@dragon.nuxi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020507163018.V503@dr-evil.shagadelic.org>; from thorpej@wasabisystems.com on Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:30:18PM -0700
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:30:18PM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:11:44PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
>
> > Where __FreeBSD_version is in sys/param.h.
> > On FreeBSD 5-CURRENT it is 500034 right now. (I guess we actually have a
> > 7-digit encoding)
>
> ...and that encoding is...? (i.e. how are the fields in the number
> split up?)
There is some historical baggage, but in the ELF world:
[0]5 major version number.
0 minor version
0034 34th significant change in 5.0 that needed an indicator
Another example from 4.5-STABLE, 450006
[0]4 major number
5 minor number
0006 6th significant change in 4.5 (before 4.6) that needed an
indicator
All the various values are documented at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-versions.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-07 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-07 13:18 Jason R Thorpe
2002-05-07 15:28 ` David O'Brien
2002-05-07 15:58 ` Jason R Thorpe
2002-05-07 16:12 ` David O'Brien
2002-05-07 16:30 ` Jason R Thorpe
2002-05-07 16:57 ` David O'Brien [this message]
2002-05-07 22:33 ` Jason R Thorpe
2002-05-08 3:21 ` Nick Clifton
2002-05-08 11:23 ` David O'Brien
2002-05-08 11:40 ` Jason R Thorpe
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