From owner-p4-projects Sun Oct 13 21:41:23 2002 Delivered-To: p4-projects@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 32767) id 294FC37B404; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:41:21 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: perforce@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id CBB1D37B401; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:41:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:41:20 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: jake@locore.ca, perforce@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 19167 for review Message-ID: <20021013214120.A38506@FreeBSD.org> References: <20021012200435.D17643@locore.ca> <20021012.202508.121567815.imp@bsdimp.com> <20021012192858.A40288@FreeBSD.org> <20021013.223108.30260344.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021013.223108.30260344.imp@bsdimp.com>; from imp@bsdimp.com on Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 10:31:08PM -0600 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-p4-projects@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: "M. Warner Losh" [ Data: 2002-10-13 ] [ Subjecte: Re: PERFORCE change 19167 for review ] > In message: <20021012192858.A40288@FreeBSD.org> > Juli Mallett writes: > : * De: "M. Warner Losh" [ Data: 2002-10-12 ] > : [ Subjecte: Re: PERFORCE change 19167 for review ] > : > In message: <20021012200435.D17643@locore.ca> > : > Jake Burkholder writes: > : > : Its often easier to just write a program that converts a binary from > : > : elf to . 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... Oh, ok. I wasn't aware of the minor variants. Is that book still in print? -- Juli Mallett | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe p4-projects" in the body of the message