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Re: More i386 architectures?

To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: More i386 architectures?
From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:43:14 +1030
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
References: <3BEDD545.9000302@cygnus.com> <m3668hsdxl.fsf@north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 12:13:42PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
> > On a related matter, is there anything in an executable indicating
> > which architecture an i386 binary belongs?
> 
> Don't know,  Sorry.

There isn't, apart from examining the code, and we certainly don't want
to go down the mips path and start using flags in the ELF header for this
purpose.  If gdb needs the info, then it could be arranged for a special
note to be emitted.

Alan

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