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Date:      Mon, 11 Sep 2017 12:05:02 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ELF auxiliary vector tags
Message-ID:  <26458208-EC4B-4647-8271-DF480EDD57DF@xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <ecca895d-2553-f2bf-4a44-5e379c07a9d4@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <ecca895d-2553-f2bf-4a44-5e379c07a9d4@FreeBSD.org>

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> On Sep 8, 2017, at 10:36 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:


> I know Justin changed time_t to 64-bit on 32-bit powerpc which =
effectively broke 32-bit powerpc earlier, but this change would break =
both 32-bit and 64-bit powerpc and is probably more disruptive (in =
theory some binaries might have worked with a wrong time_t, but renumber =
AT_STACKPROT, etc. will probably break every binary).

That probably depends on the byte order. I would think widening
time_t on a big-endian machine is a lot more disruptive than
doing it on a little-endian machine.

That said and along the lines of what @imp said:
Maybe add a a MD macro (e.g. NO_MI_AUX_VECTORS) whose existence
suppresses the MI definitions of AT_* so that MD headers can
define their own?

--=20
Marcel Moolenaar
marcel@xcllnt.net





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