Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:31:08 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jake@locore.ca, perforce@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 19167 for review Message-ID: <20021013.223108.30260344.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20021012192858.A40288@FreeBSD.org> References: <20021012200435.D17643@locore.ca> <20021012.202508.121567815.imp@bsdimp.com> <20021012192858.A40288@FreeBSD.org>
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Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
: * De: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> [ Data: 2002-10-12 ]
: [ Subjecte: Re: PERFORCE change 19167 for review ]
: > In message: <20021012200435.D17643@locore.ca>
: > Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> writes:
: > : Its often easier to just write a program that converts a binary from
: > : elf to <insert wierd format>. We do this for sparc64 where the prom
: > : wants an a.out binary (elf2aout), and I'm pretty sure for alpha which
: > : might actually use COFF (elf2exe).
: >
: > Actually, objcopy does that fairly well in most cases. And we (or
: > NetBSD) already has an elf2coff and an elf2aout. I think that NetBSD
: > is migrating to the former, but I can't be 100% sure. I gotta get my
: > NetBSD arc box up and running since it requires ECOFF of a weird
: > flavor to boot...
:
: Much like some older flavors of SGI :/
:
: I think you mean XCOFF? That's what some early OFW Macs use, and I seem
: to recall having a discussion with Benno about an elf2xcoff. I was
: never able to find adequate docs of the differences between {e,}coff
: and xcoff to give it a go :/
:
: And yeah, objcopy should be enough, I'd forgotten about that.
No, I'm sure I mean ECOFF. There's about 3 different minor variants
as to magic number and such. The magic numbers for the ECOFF are
listed in the ECOFF O'Reilly book I have...
Warner
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