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Re: 2.11.2 & arm-aout
- To: Quality Quorum <qqi at world dot std dot com>
- Subject: Re: 2.11.2 & arm-aout
- From: Philip Blundell <philb at gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 12:12:03 +0100
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <Pine.SGI.4.30.0109220819200.2717-100000@world.std.com>
>I had built arm-aout cross tool chain using binutils-2.11.2. I found one
>anomaly in the generated output: (a)first four bytes of header are
>in little-endian order instead of netorder, (b) first four bytes of
>header contain only magic number, no machine type information.
>
>Is it as it supposed to be ?
Yeah. It's certainly been this way as long as I can remember, and I don't
think changing it would be a sensible move.
If you are building binaries to run on an OS that cares about the header, you
probably want a more specific configuration than arm-aout in any case.
p.
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