From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 13 19:10:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 063AF16A418 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:10:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kaiwang27@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79EDC13C4EF for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:10:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kaiwang27@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id y2so1100927uge.37 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:10:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=3WTxCoPjDOkxb/VQeFPIbShRkKjhwmf1JXncC3xPZeg=; b=LL0paoXTy4M2C/Y8CAgMTmV0vFRk6BNtaxA0fDY2qayIzVFZEotLJ51Oa0lnwzpSytQSZtvKofkzO3eLQYhhH3S9FKi0ZZkWctifeMRIFqDORmtd1WN/H4l7RDnHxmBAhiYsT0g08twsEfThHJBCwAAMqGbyWlcPROiOHTzVktk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=iPo52LRSTzN9IdX4gDcQxrYGq483GqFXg6XGcE9y2iZI6BNX3DQoI9b4xRPLcyghl8QRD5UeFuY+uOMt38C8AThlGXLqg9th+qUIep9YtYD7b1pckfrJOO1Ai1/rWZ9oaZKUul9novkX8/kr+YHeubs206GBe8aJdmyHUyo6OhE= Received: by 10.67.101.17 with SMTP id d17mr3195693ugm.53.1200251441666; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:10:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se ( [193.11.244.12]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t12sm4344507gvd.2.2008.01.13.11.10.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:10:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4377DB84A; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:10:37 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:10:37 +0100 From: Kai Wang To: David O'Brien Message-ID: <20080113191037.GA1899@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20080111142336.GA1379@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080113103501.GB46123@dragon.NUXI.org> <20080113171514.GA1210@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080113183915.GA56979@dragon.NUXI.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080113183915.GA56979@dragon.NUXI.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Call for testers] "BSD ar" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:10:44 -0000 On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:39:15AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > Hi Kai, > I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough - can your BSD 'ar', built on amd64 > handle both 32-bit (i.e., "i386") and 64-bit (i.e., "amd64) ELF archives? > > >From the above it almost seems you're saying it can handle that plus more > (other non-x86 arches). Is that correct? Yes. BSD 'ar' can handle all the ELF variants(64/32, LE/BE), regardless of the arch it is built on . This is inherited from libelf. -- Kai