Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:16:13 -0500 | From | Nathan Lynch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string |
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Roland McGrath wrote: > > Well, we use strings to represent the platforms already (ie, the actual > > CPU microarchitecture). Fitting those into bits would be annoying, it > > Then use dsocaps. > > > makes sense to have AT_BASE_PLATFORM to be the "base" variant of > > AT_PLATFORM. > > I understand why you think so. But let's not be too abstract. The > purpose of the addition is to drive ld.so's selection of libraries, yes?
That is one purpose. But there are others (JVMs, performance tools). dsocaps seems to be an ld.so-specific thing... or am I missing how a "third-party" program would use it?
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