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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/crunch/crunchide exec_aout.c exec_elf32.c         exec_elf64.c extern.h Makefile crunchide.c
In-Reply-To: <199809141542.IAA12122@austin.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Sep 14, 98 08:42:03 am"
To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 20:26:56 +0200 (SAT)
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> >   Modified files:
> >     usr.sbin/crunch/crunchide Makefile crunchide.c 
> >   Added files:
> >     usr.sbin/crunch/crunchide exec_aout.c exec_elf32.c 
> >                               exec_elf64.c extern.h 
> >   Log:
> >   Teach crunch about an elf/a.out world.
> >   Submitted by:	jhay
> 
> Oh, drat!  This is fine, but it's sure a lot of wasted work.  I
> pointed out in -current a week or two ago that, for ELF, crunchide
> could be thrown out entirely and replaced by a suitable invocation of
> /usr/libexec/elf/objcopy.  If I had known you guys were working on it,
> I would have told you directly.

Well I did see your message, but then nothing happened for a while and I
had a peek at NetBSD and they had it all worked out, with auto detection
of binary format included. :-) Our elf include files are actually quite
similar, it is just here and there that they use capitals and we don't
and so forth.

John
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John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za