Re: [GIT PULL] x86 setup: correct booting on 486 (revised)

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

The ELF note format is sane enough, although it looks like it's not
self-terminating, so we'd either need an offset and a length field, or
adopt the convention that namesz = descsz = type = 0 terminates the
block (I prefer the latter, myself.)


Hm, I think offset+length would be better: it's how they're represented
in a normal ELF file, so you can just extract the length if you're
extracting the notes.  Also, generating a terminating note with the
current linker-based notes machinery would be a bit of a pain.


.notes : {
	*(.note.*)
	. = ALIGN(4);
	LONG(0);
	LONG(0);
	LONG(0);
}

Am I missing something?

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