ELF branding / magic numbers

[Philip Reynolds]

Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> 35 lines of wisdom included:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:39:45AM +0000, Philip Reynolds wrote:
> [...]
> > Does the magic number not then support multiple ABI's per system
> > architecture, or is there some part of the puzzle I'm missing?
> > 
> There's an EI_ABIVERSION byte following the EI_OSABI byte, which
> is both documented in the elf(5) manpage, and is shown in the
> ``readelf -h'' output.

You misunderstood me. 

My question was why is there a need for a PT_NOTE section (which is
a more convaluted way of branding and reading a brand of an elf
binary) if the above sections exist?

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