[Differential] [Commented On] D1428: readelf: Handle note types from different operating systems

[emaste (Ed Maste)]

emaste added a comment.

>>! In D1428#6, @rpaulo wrote:
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> The Linux note types are Linux specific.  Are you saying that FreeBSD reuses them ?

Not quite, just that the note types are vendor-specific and in a namespace specific to the note name (vendor). `NT_PRSTATUS`, `NT_FPREGSET`, and `NT_FPREGSET` happen to have the same value on Linux and FreeBSD. We don't currently have definitions in our ELF headers for Linux-specific note types like NT_LWPSTATUS, and I'd find it somewhat odd to add them without somehow putting them in a namespace in the header.

REVISION DETAIL
  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1428

To: emaste
Cc: rpaulo, freebsd-toolchain