From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 6 09:01:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA19775 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 09:01:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19759 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 09:01:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA06895; Wed, 6 May 1998 09:00:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199805061600.JAA06895@austin.polstra.com> To: daveh@ntanet.net Subject: Re: bintutils In-Reply-To: <199805040505.WAA27398@gwythaint.tamis.com> References: <199805040505.WAA27398@gwythaint.tamis.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 09:00:51 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199805040505.WAA27398@gwythaint.tamis.com>, David Holloway wrote: > > Someone is really confused... > Any comments? > > > > daveh@gwythaint> diff binutils-2.8.1/bfd/freebsd.h binutils-2.9/bfd/freebsd.h > 58c58 > < /* On FreeBSD, the magic number is always in ntohl's "network" (big-endian) > --- > > /* On FreeBSD, the magic number is always in i386 (little-endian) > 60c60 > < #define SWAP_MAGIC(ext) bfd_getb32 (ext) > --- > > #define SWAP_MAGIC(ext) bfd_getl32 (ext) a.out support for FreeBSD has been broken in binutils for eons. There are no plans to fix it, because we are switching to ELF anyway. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message