2.11.2 & arm-aout

Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
Sat Sep 22 06:24:00 GMT 2001


> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had built arm-aout cross tool chain using binutils-2.11.2. I found one
> anomaly in the generated output:

> (a)first four bytes of header are
> in little-endian order instead of netorder,

That's how it's intended to be; what makes you think they should be in any 
order other than the native endianness of the object?

> (b) first four bytes of
> header contain only magic number, no machine type information.

Not sure about that one; it depends on what type of object you were trying 
to generate.





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