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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:03:11 +0000
From: Sevan Janiyan <venture37@...klan.co.uk>
To: libc-coord@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Elf_GNU_Hash_Header
On 22/03/2024 02:52, Brooks Davis wrote:
> It was added it 2009 by the author of elftoolchain which is its only
> consumer AFACT. If no one else has added I doubt there is much demand
> for it and it's probably a mistake that it's in sys/elf_common.h.
http://www.linker-aliens.org/blogs/ali/entry/gnu_hash_elf_sections/
elftoolchain author:
On 22/03/2024 13:44, Joseph Koshy wrote:
>> } Elf_GNU_Hash_Header;
> IIRC this is a GNU extension to the ELF file format that we started
> supporting in 2009:
>
> https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/binutils/2006-10/msg00377.html
>
> I haven't checked if the extension is still in use. It is probably
> still in use (in some form), since it was created to address a
> shortcoming of ELF at that time.
Sevan
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