From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: machine types for MIPS in ELF file
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 16:48:46 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010508164846.A1471@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AF843F7.72BC47F0@mvista.com>; from jsun@mvista.com on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:07:35PM -0700
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:07:35PM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:
> The e_machine field in ELF file standard defines two values for MIPS:
>
> 8 - MIPS RS3000 BE
> 10 - MIPS RS4000 BE
>
> Naturally the question is: what about LE binaries? And what about other
> CPUs? Is there any effort to clean up this thing?
>
> All the tools that I know of are using 8, pretty much for all CPUs and both
> endians. No real harm has been observed, but it causes some anonying "invalid
> byte order" complains if you do "file" on a MIPS LE binary. Of course, it
> will also invariably reports "R3000" cpu as well.
EM_MIPS_RS4_BE was apparently only in use for a short time; EM_MIPS is
being used for both byte order. The byteorder is nowadays identified by
EI_DATA.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-08 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-08 19:07 machine types for MIPS in ELF file Jun Sun
2001-05-08 19:34 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-05-08 19:48 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-05-08 21:20 ` Jun Sun
2001-05-10 2:08 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-05-09 12:04 ` Steven J. Hill
2001-05-09 13:54 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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