detect special mips64le dwarf2 line number length encoding

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

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