On 3 August 2012 12:48, Steve McIntyre <steve.mcint...@linaro.org> wrote: > 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.
If it really becomes necessary, an override flag to dlopen() should be simple enough to implement. -- Mans Rullgard / mru _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
