Re: uapi elf: delete unused macros

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Mon Apr 11 2016 - 09:05:16 EST


On Fri, 2015-06-11 at 14:45:47 UTC, =?utf-8?b?5oWV5Yas5Lqu?= wrote:
> >From 13f516acc709d88d3162e92bc891c8e39cc9fc1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: mudongliang <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 14:35:19 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] unify the comment form and delete unused macros
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h b/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
> index 71e1d0e..ff81b20 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
> @@ -342,15 +342,13 @@ typedef struct elf64_shdr {
> #define ELFCLASSNONE 0 /* EI_CLASS */
> #define ELFCLASS32 1
> #define ELFCLASS64 2
> -#define ELFCLASSNUM 3
>
> -#define ELFDATANONE 0 /* e_ident[EI_DATA] */
> +#define ELFDATANONE 0 /* EI_DATA */
> #define ELFDATA2LSB 1
> #define ELFDATA2MSB 2
>
> -#define EV_NONE 0 /* e_version, EI_VERSION */
> +#define EV_NONE 0 /* EI_VERSION */
> #define EV_CURRENT 1
> -#define EV_NUM 2

How do you know there isn't a userspace program somewhere that's using this
definition?

cheers