New CPU & OS Platform System Properties

[Florian Weimer]

On 01/08/2013 09:29 PM, Bob Vandette wrote:

> Embedded processors support a variety of CPU configurations that are not all binary compatible.  If a developer needs to provide native binaries for one or more of these configurations, they need a way of querying the platform constraints in order to load the appropriate JNI shared library.

I wonder if it might be better to shift the burden of selecting a 
working DSO to ld.so: try to dlopen() several DSOs, until you find one 
that works.

This would need a precise ABI specification at the ELF level, and ld.so 
would have to reject loading ABI-incompatible DSOs.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team