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Re: How to use bits_per_byte (~OCTETS_PER_BYTE) of bfd_arch_info_type in binutils port?
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 06:19:12PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> Alan Modra wrote:
>
> > besides the calls to bfd_set_section_contents, which ought to be fixed
> > by the following patch. I'm loathe to apply this patch to the
> > official sources until we have a contributed port that needs it,
> > because bfd_octets_per_bytes is not exactly a cheap function. A
> > proper fix would involve adding an opb_shift or somesuch to the bfd
> > struct, and using that.
>
> I'm working on a (private) port where octets_per_byte isn't even a power of 2 :-)
Fun. ELF or COFF?
> (Alan, you appear to have suddenly started setting Mail-Followups-To: headers;
> does this mean you don't want to be Cc'd on list posts any more?)
I haven't made any deliberate changes to my mail setup (and I don't
care one way or the other whether I'm Cc'd on binutils posts).
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM