Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 19:20:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@CS.Duke.EDU> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. Message-ID: <199705132320.TAA30881@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <E0wRPdg-00068C-00@rover.village.org> References: <10485.863559171@time.cdrom.com> <E0wRPdg-00068C-00@rover.village.org>
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Warner Losh writes: > In message <10485.863559171@time.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > : > I'm grabbing mine from gatekeeper.dec.com right now. It looks like > : > there is a ECOFF program called loadlin.exe for Windows NT. The SRM > : > > : Erm. That sure looks like a DOS executable to me. ;-) > > Can't be a dos program on an Alpha :-) File doesn't say that it is a > DOS exe. Looking at the header shows that it isn't a DOS exe. > However, file doesn't know what it is. Since the first 5 bytes aren't > ELF64 or ELF32, I concluded it must be an ECOFF binary since all other > forms that I'm aware of start with two ASCII letters. > > Warner If you look at the milo distribution, there is a file (tools/arc/arc.s) whose comments give a description of the format of the header of an ARC image. They describe an ARC image as a 'sort of a.out' image. If you look at linload.exe using od, it seems to match that format.. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590
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