* Dave Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-21 15:00]: > > I like the addition of the machine-type verification error message. > > But why bother with the endian check? Using your ppc64/x86_64 > example, an architecture check/error message would make far > more sense. The "endianness" error message implies that if > they re-compiled their ppc64 kernel little-endian that things > would work.
I added it because if the dump is BE (like PPC64) then the elf64->e_type == ET_CORE check (also with ELF32) is always false and the code never got into the switch that checks the machine type. Thanks, Bernhard -- Crash-utility mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
