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Re: [PATCH/AARCH64 6/6] Support ILP32 multi-lib


On Mon, 9 Dec 2013, Yufeng Zhang wrote:

> > -#define GLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKER "/lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1"
> > +#define GLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKER "/lib/ld-linux%{mabi=ilp32:32}-aarch64.so.1"
> 
> To be more explicit and consistent, the name of the ILP32 loader shall have
> 'ilp32' instead of '32'.  The extension field shall be appended to 'aarch64',
> separated by '_', and we should probably add the big-endian name at the same
> time.  With the extension fields sorted alphabetically, GLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKER
> can be defined as:

What's the use of a different name for big-endian?  It's not as if Linux 
has ever supported running processes with a different endianness from the 
kernel....

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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