objcopy in binutils doesn't work on Mac OS X

David Daney ddaney@avtrex.com
Wed Feb 28 22:47:00 GMT 2007


Masaki Muranaka wrote:
> Hello Axel,
> 
> On 2007/02/28, at 20:11, Axel Simon wrote:
>> 1695      if (adata->magic != 0x213c6172) /* 0xcafebabe) */
> 
> 0xcafebabe is a Mach-O FAT magic number (known as "universal binary").
> I think your fix is not reasonable.

That is odd.  0xcafebabe also appears to be the java class file magic 
number.

I'm not sure if that is germane to this discussions though.

David Daney



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