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Re: Sanity check on ARM BE8 patch
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:07:51 -0400
- Subject: Re: Sanity check on ARM BE8 patch
- References: <486928F6.40509@earthlink.net>
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:41:58AM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
> I have a patch that makes ARM BE8 format (bigendian, but code is
> littleendian) disassemble correctly, but even though the patch only
> affects opcodes/ and objdump, the most straightforward place to add a
> test is in the ld testsuite, because only the linker can create the files
> via --be8, no way to get be8 .o files out of gas. So I just wanted to
> check that adding an ld test actually seemed sensible before I started to
> write it.
Seems reasonable to me - it will simultaneously test the --be8 linker
option.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery