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Re: ARM BE8 linker support
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- To: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:32:45 +0100
- Subject: Re: ARM BE8 linker support
- Organization: ARM Ltd.
- Reply-to: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
Paul,
I've just realized that there are a couple of omissions from this patch
(there's no need to back it out, but I think they would be best addressed
while the patch is fresh in your mind):
BE8 mode should really only be possible for EABI v3 or later images.
It ought to be possible to create a configuration where BE8 mode is the
default (assuming a big-endian object file)...
...so it should also be possible to disable that behaviour by requesting a
BE32 image.
I'm not sure if this can happen, but it shouldn't be possible to generate
BE8 when doing a partial link.
R.