H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Thu May 8 13:32:00 GMT 2008

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On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 01:57:26PM +0100, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a bug report about i86-ld allowing you to create big endian i86 modules with:
>   ld -EB ....
>
> The linker produces no errors, but the resultant file is marked with 
> unknown architecture, and is pretty useless :)  Is there a rationale for 
> not issuing an error at link time?  I notice elf32-i386.c lacks a 

You may want to take a look at closest_target_match in ldlang.c.
It matches -EB any with big endian ELF target like elf64-big
or elf32-big.  I think closest_target_match is too simple for ELF
target. We should at least check one or more of arch,
elf_machine_code, elf_size_info.

> merge_private_bfd_data hook.
>

Does it need one?


H.J.

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