[haiku-development] Re: Question on Hybrid lib selection & GCC4 games
- From: Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 15:16:18 -0500
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you're going to answer a technical question about code you've
> clearly never actually looked at, then it would behoove you to first
> have a look to see if your answer is correct before replying, because
> this one isn't in any way whatsoever [1].
>
> The first thing the runtime loader does is look for the haiku version
> symbols, which haiku-native binaries built within the past few years
> will include. These identify the API version as well as the ABI, and
> are used to add compatibility shims in case API behavior changes
> between revisions.
>
> For older binaries which do not include this symbol, i.e. older Haiku
> binaries and/or BeOS binaries, the .comment ELF section of the binary
> is searched for the GCC version string, which in turn is broken down
> to determine which compiler generated the code.
>
Oh, sorry. I stand corrected.
-Augustin
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