Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:27:52 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86 setup: correct booting on 486 (revised) |
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> The ELF note format is sane enough, although it looks like it's not >> self-terminating, so we'd either need an offset and a length field, or >> adopt the convention that namesz = descsz = type = 0 terminates the >> block (I prefer the latter, myself.) > > Hm, I think offset+length would be better: it's how they're represented > in a normal ELF file, so you can just extract the length if you're > extracting the notes. Also, generating a terminating note with the > current linker-based notes machinery would be a bit of a pain.
.notes : { *(.note.*) . = ALIGN(4); LONG(0); LONG(0); LONG(0); }
Am I missing something?
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