Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 13:50:46 -0700
On Thursday 14 November 2024 04:30:43 Mountain Standard Time Frederick
Virchanza Gotham via Std-Proposals wrote:
> So originally I said I'd append the extra info to the end of the file,
> and then you said you'd put it in an ELF note, but no matter where we
> put it, someone else might want to do something else there.
No, because ELF notes are extensible and namespaced. You didn't bother to read
more on this subject before replying, so I won't bother to provide more
information either.
You can read Qt's code to see what it does. Just mind you it's LGPL so I
expect any code you produce from having learned this to also be LGPL or GPL.
Virchanza Gotham via Std-Proposals wrote:
> So originally I said I'd append the extra info to the end of the file,
> and then you said you'd put it in an ELF note, but no matter where we
> put it, someone else might want to do something else there.
No, because ELF notes are extensible and namespaced. You didn't bother to read
more on this subject before replying, so I won't bother to provide more
information either.
You can read Qt's code to see what it does. Just mind you it's LGPL so I
expect any code you produce from having learned this to also be LGPL or GPL.
-- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Principal Engineer - Intel DCAI Platform & System Engineering
Received on 2024-11-14 20:50:48