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Date:      Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:25:08 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        jake@locore.ca
Cc:        jmallett@freebsd.org, perforce@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PERFORCE change 19167 for review
Message-ID:  <20021012.202508.121567815.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021012200435.D17643@locore.ca>
References:  <200210122211.g9CMBh5K040057@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021012200435.D17643@locore.ca>

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In message: <20021012200435.D17643@locore.ca>
            Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> writes:
: Its often easier to just write a program that converts a binary from
: elf to <insert wierd format>.  We do this for sparc64 where the prom
: wants an a.out binary (elf2aout), and I'm pretty sure for alpha which
: might actually use COFF (elf2exe).

Actually, objcopy does that fairly well in most cases.  And we (or
NetBSD) already has an elf2coff and an elf2aout.  I think that NetBSD
is migrating to the former, but I can't be 100% sure.  I gotta get my
NetBSD arc box up and running since it requires ECOFF of a weird
flavor to boot...

Warner

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