Re: Elf OS ABI Number

["Kris Warkentin" <kewarken@qnx.com>]

> > Is there a good reason why you've invented your own relocs?  If the
> > processor vendor (who generally own the reloc space allocation for their
> > processor) where to allocate a reloc that conflicts with your usage at a
> > later date you might have a major problem on your hands.
>
> We do some weird stuff for execute in place and various kernel stuff.  I
> don't understand the details particularily well but we have to use our own
> linker on certain startup code and such.  Probably doesn't affect much
else.

I forgot to mention, the one place where we might legitimately need an OSABI
number is in MIPS.  We have our own ABI that doesn't force us to compile
everything PIC.  There was a whitepaper posted to binutils and gcc once upon
a time but no one was interested in it.

cheers,

Kris