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On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 02:32:56PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote: > * H.J. pointed out that the name of the switch is slightly confusing. > --reverse-endian or --reverse-bytes might be a more reasonable > name. I have changed the option to --reverse-bytes in the code and the documentation. > * I think that this paragraph in the documentation is rather > confusing: > > +By using @samp{--reverse=2} followed by @samp{--reverse=4}, then bytes > +ordered @code{34127856} would be generated. > > To me this implied that you can use the --reverse switch twice on > the same command line in order to achieve the effect you describe. If I > have read the code correctly however, only the last instance of the > switch on the command line will be honored, and so you need to run the > objcopy command *twice* in order to achieve the desired effect. Yes, that's not particularly clear. I have altered the paragraph to make it more obvious that you need to run the command twice. > * The code should check to see if --reverse if issued more than once > on the command line and (if they have different values) warn the user > that the earlier value(s) are being ignored. Done. OK? -Nathan
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