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Re: detect special mips64le dwarf2 line number length encoding
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 09:59:37 -0500
- Subject: Re: detect special mips64le dwarf2 line number length encoding
- References: <orfzrph0md.fsf@free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 08:53:14AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> The code that was put in to detect the special 64-bit format used by
> IRIX (and mips64-linux-gnu) fails in little-endian mode, since what it
> reads as the length is actually the lower 32-bit word, that is quite
> likely non-zero. This patch makes the test a bit more inclusive, such
> that it can do the detection in little-endian mode. I hope the
> assumption is reasonable. Ok to install?
Ask a silly question, but MIPS64 Linux is a brand new userspace port.
Why are we using the non-standard DWARF-2 format? Why not do it the
normal way?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer