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diff --git a/csu/abi-note.S b/csu/abi-note.S new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..baa409de4d --- /dev/null +++ b/csu/abi-note.S @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +/* Special .init and .fini section support. + Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + This file is part of the GNU C Library. + + The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it + and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public + License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either + version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. + + In addition to the permissions in the GNU Library General Public + License, the Free Software Foundation gives you unlimited + permission to link the compiled version of this file with other + programs, and to distribute those programs without any restriction + coming from the use of this file. (The Library General Public + License restrictions do apply in other respects; for example, they + cover modification of the file, and distribution when not linked + into another program.) + + The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be + useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty + of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the + GNU Library General Public License for more details. + + You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public + License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, + write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, + Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ + +#include <sysdep.h> + +/* The basic layout of note sections is specified by the ELF format. */ + +#define ELF_NOTE_BEGIN(sectname, sectflags, type, name) \ + .section sectname, sectflags; \ + .align ALIGNARG(2); /* Notes are 4-byte aligned. */ \ + .long 1f - 0f; /* 32-bit word: length of name field */ \ + .long 3f - 2f; /* 32-bit word: length of desc field */ \ + .long (type); /* 32-bit word: vendor-defined type field */ \ +0: .asciz name; /* null-terminated string, any length: name */\ +1: .align ALIGNARG(2); /* Name data padded to 4-byte alignment. */ \ +2: /* Here follows the "note descriptor" data, whose format \ + is not specified by ELF. The vendor name and type field \ + indicate what sort of data is found here. */ + +#define ELF_NOTE_END \ +3: .align ALIGNARG(2) /* Pad to 4-byte align the next note. */ + + +/* The linker (GNU ld 2.8 and later) recognize an allocated section whose + name begins with `.note' and creates a PT_NOTE program header entry + pointing at it. + + Such a program header is the canonical way (at least in the free OS + community) to identify the OS environment ABI that the executable was + created for. The ELF note information identifies a particular OS or + coordinated development effort within which the ELF header's e_machine + value plus (for dynamically linked programs) the PT_INTERP dynamic + linker name and DT_NEEDED shared library names fully identify the + runtime environment required by an executable. + + The GNU project and cooperating development efforts (including the Linux + community) use a vendor name string of "GNU", and a note type field with + value 1 for a note descriptor that indicates ABI requirements. */ + +#include <abi-tag.h> /* OS-specific ABI tag value */ + +ELF_NOTE_BEGIN(".note.ABI-tag", "a", 1, "GNU") + .long ABI_TAG +ELF_NOTE_END |