Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:12:41 -0800 From: "Peter Wemm" <peter@wemm.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Call for testers] "BSD ar" Message-ID: <e7db6d980801132012i37a5fd95n92d9d2dc300cf75@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080113191037.GA1899@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> References: <20080111142336.GA1379@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080113103501.GB46123@dragon.NUXI.org> <20080113171514.GA1210@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <20080113183915.GA56979@dragon.NUXI.org> <20080113191037.GA1899@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se>
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On Jan 13, 2008 11:10 AM, Kai Wang <kaiwang27@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Speaking of libelf.. Do you think I can tempt anybody into writing a mcs(1) program? http://cc.in2p3.fr/doc/phpman.php/man/mcs/1 DESCRIPTION The mcs command is used to manipulate a section, by default the .comment section, in an ELF object file. It is used to add to, delete, print, and compress the contents of a sec- tion in an ELF object file ... The main usefulness is adding custom comments to the #ident section, printing the contents (ala ident(1)), removing duplicate comments, or stripping the comments totally. I've always missed this program... it never made it into binutils. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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