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| COFF and byte ordering chrise@sr.hp.com (Chris Eich) (1992-06-25) |
| Re: COFF and byte ordering sac@cygnus.com (1992-06-26) |
| Re: COFF and byte ordering chrise@hpsrcje.sr.hp.com (Chris Eich) (1992-06-26) |
| Re: COFF and byte ordering chrise@hpsrcje.sr.hp.com (Chris Eich) (1992-07-01) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| From: | Chris Eich <chrise@hpsrcje.sr.hp.com> |
| Organization: | Compilers Central |
| Date: | Fri, 26 Jun 1992 23:21:11 GMT |
| Keywords: | linker |
| References: | 92-06-128 |
I subsequently found that the tools I'm looking at are smart enough to
recognize an "other-endian" COFF file and swap the relevant bytes. (Hint:
the magic number is a short containing different bytes.)
One person suggested conv(1), which seems to be BSDish (I don't have it on
HP-UX). If it's a generic "byte-swap the entire file" tool, it won't
work, since 1) it won't know whether to swap 2 or 4 bytes, and 2) it will
try to byte-swap the "raw" parts of the file (i.e. those written in a
fixed byte order).
Chris Eich
Hewlett-Packard
[Actually, conv is a Sys V program that swaps the byte order in COFF files
and also can convert archive formats and the like. -John]
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