PSARC/2007/509 elfedit

[James Carlson]

Rod Evans writes:
> We were forced to abandon isaexec() and invent our own model.
> We look at the first relocatable object on the command line,
> and if it is 32-bit we remain within the 32-bit ld().  If the
> object is 64-bit we kick off an isaexec like function to determine
> if the 64-bit ld exists, and if so run it.

I can understand that target-sensitive behavior.  It's similar to what
mdb does.

That's explicitly _not_ what elfedit is doing here, at least according
to the submitter.

> This is all wrapped up in conv_check_native() under sgs.  And as
> we like to eat our own dog food, the various other sgs utilities
> we work on have adopted using the same routine.

OK ...

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