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SubjectRe: [PATCH] cross-architecture ELF clean up
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Grouping related things together is always a good approach. But the right
> factor should be used for the grouping. For the ELF file is would from a usage
> perspective be natural to have constants close to the definition that
> they are used to describe. Having constants grouped with other constants just
> _because_ they are constants does not cut here.

Many ELF constants are used without direct reference to their
corresponding structures. My linux/elf-const.h header is just a
generalization of the existing linux/elf-em.h header, which just
contained the ELF EM_* constants. Given that there seems to be a
preexisting need for the EM_* constants in a separate header, and having
a separate elf-*.h for each group of constants is a bad idea, it seemed
to me that elf-const.h was the appropriate direction to take.

J
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