Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of LibElfIncompatibilityRedHatElfUtils

Timestamp:

04/19/12 16:51:36 (13 months ago)

Author:

jkoshy (IP: 172.29.29.114)

Comment:

Improve the organization of the wiki page.

LibElfIncompatibilityRedHatElfUtils

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-== elf_getshnum(), elf_getshstrndx() return value ==
+== 1. (Resolved) elf_getshnum(), elf_getshstrndx() return value ==
 
+=== Description ===
 In our implementation of the ELF(3) API, functions `elf_getshnum()` and `elf_getshstrndx()` return zero in case of an error and non-zero in case of success.  This behaviour is consistent with that of the ELF(3) implementations from the [http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/sgs/libelf/ OpenSolaris] and [http://www.mr511.de/software/english.html GNU] projects.
 
 In contrast, the similarly named functions in Red Hat '''[https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils elfutils]''' return -1 in the case of an error and zero otherwise.
 
-=== Status of Proposed Fixes/Workarounds ===
+=== Resolution ===
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+New APIs `elf_getshdrnum()`, `elf_getshdrstrndx()`, and `elf_getphdrnum()` have been added to `libelf`.
+
+=== Timeline of the proposed fixes/workarounds ===
 
  * (2009/Jun/03) Ali.Bahrami@Sun.COM suggests deprecating `elf_getshnum()`, `elf_getshstrndx()` and `elf_getphnum()` in favour of three new APIs `elf_getshdrnum()`, `elf_getshdrstrndx()`, and `elf_getphdrnum()` respectively.  The new functions will return -1 in case of error, and zero otherwise.
  * (2009/Jun/15) See also: Solaris bug [http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6851224 6851224].
  * (2009/Jun/18) Per discussion on email with Ali Bahrami and Michael Riepe, Opensolaris's Nevada snv_118 build, RH Elfutils 0.142, and GNU libelf 0.8.12 will have the new APIs.
- * (2009/Aug/04) The three proposed APIs were added to [source:trunk/libelf libelf/] in changeset [466].
+ * (2009/Aug/04) The three proposed APIs were added to [source:trunk/libelf libelf/] in changeset [466].  These APIs will be present in the [wiki:Releases/Release0.5.1 v0.5] and subsequent releases.