On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 01:11:23PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
>Perhaps this was brought up before, but is there an use case for mixing
>ABIs in the same ELF file?  For instance, one could implement a portable
>ARM EABI binary not calling any float function but just dlopen()ing this
>or that library depending on which ABI variant it detects.
>
>(It's an unlikely scenario, but I wanted to bring it up in case the plan
>would prevent this and could easily be made not to.)

We've discussed it in the past, and while you possibly *could* do it,
it's such an edge case that nobody cared. Likely to be fragile, too.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve McIntyre                                steve.mcint...@linaro.org
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