RE: [cdt-core-dev] Re: New elf magic numbers

["James Langley" <jlangley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Alain,

Thanks for that.  It would be great in future to be able to add these
numbers programmatically, rather than having to have them hard coded in
this class.  On a related note it would certainly be useful to us to be
able to influence the name of the GNU tool that gets run by the utility
classes such as CPPFilt and Addr2Line, since our executables have
different names.  If we could provide those names and also the
environment to run them in, then we could remove a large quantity of
duplicate code in our release which is simply copied from the CDT source
with very minor modifications.  

Does anyone have any comments/objections to this?  I'm happy to have a
go at producing a patch for these features if they seem useful.

James


-----Original Message-----
From: Alain Magloire [mailto:alain@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 19 May 2004 16:25
To: cdt-core-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cdt-core-dev] Re: New elf magic numbers

> 
> I submitted a patch last week that had some new magic numbers in it,
but
> haven't had any feedback yet.  I was wondering if anyone has had a
> chance to look at it yet.  I see that a similar patch was applied not
> too long ago for HP by dschaefer, so hopefully it's not too
> controversial.  If I've missed a step in submitting the patch (should
I
> have brought the subject up in one of the other mailing lists first,
> etc) then please let me know.
> 

Many reasons may explain this:
 - The HP patch was a .... convenience, since we don't
   really support Elf64 format.
 - Hopefully we will find a way to make contributions externally
   instead of bloating this class.  Future enhancement.

But the real reason, ... we(I) did not see your email 8-(
Lesson .. it is a good thing to ping back when no reaction 8-)

Patch applied to the head.

Thanks.


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