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build/1148: Audit GDB for missing BFD_ENDIAN_UNKNOWN checks
- From: ac131313 at redhat dot com
- To: gdb-gnats at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 21 Mar 2003 16:15:10 -0000
- Subject: build/1148: Audit GDB for missing BFD_ENDIAN_UNKNOWN checks
- Reply-to: ac131313 at redhat dot com
>Number: 1148
>Category: build
>Synopsis: Audit GDB for missing BFD_ENDIAN_UNKNOWN checks
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: maintenance
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Mar 21 16:18:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: ac131313 at redhat dot com
>Release: unknown-1.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
BFD's byte order enum has three values:
- little
- big
- unknown
Unfortunatly, some slabs of gdb code asssume !big === little (see arch-utils.c:set_endian_from_file() for an example).
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