No version information inside binary files #5
Description
Currently, there are only the magic bytes "soil", without any version or platform-specific (e.g. word size) information.
Adding a second field (maybe after a different magic to be backwards-compatible with the current spec) to include the version and other parameters would allow differentiating between binaries built for one version and for another.
Having this information inside a section would work too, but would probably require that section to be the first to interpret the following sections correctly.
How about a magic sequence of 8 bytes, starting with "soil", followed by an 8-bit flags field to encode required features (e.g. HW-multiply, 32-bit support, atomics) and finally three bytes for versioning in major.minor.patch format?