We want things to continue to work on ELF files with e_machine codes for
which we have no ebl port. So if you do that, you need to adapt all the
users so that they do something useful when openbackend fails. It might be
simpler to stick with the generic backend but add an ebl hook for "warning
to
Mark Wielaard writes:
> The default openbackend should handle ebl == NULL just fine.
> Then we just have to adjust the callers to either error out or just warn
> about the unknown backend.
>
That would be one option for the particular problem that lead to this
patch.
However, I really think the
On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 23:51 +0100, Ben Gamari wrote:
> Mark Wielaard writes:
> > Yes, could you describe what kind of calls you were doing that made this
> > really messy?
> >
> Well, much of the time I spent debugging wasn't even against GHC. I
> spent quite a while trying to figure out why `read
Mark Wielaard writes:
> On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 20:03 +0100, Ben Gamari wrote:
>> Josh Stone writes:
>>
>> > On 11/25/2015 04:45 AM, Ben Gamari wrote:
>> >> This could have easily saved me three hours.
>
> Urgh, that is terrible. I am really sorry about this.
>
It's okay. This sort of thing comes
On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 20:03 +0100, Ben Gamari wrote:
> Josh Stone writes:
>
> > On 11/25/2015 04:45 AM, Ben Gamari wrote:
> >> This could have easily saved me three hours.
Urgh, that is terrible. I am really sorry about this.
We really should do a better job. One of the problems is that libebl
Josh Stone writes:
> On 11/25/2015 04:45 AM, Ben Gamari wrote:
>> This could have easily saved me three hours.
>> ---
>> libebl/eblopenbackend.c | 3 ++-
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/libebl/eblopenbackend.c b/libebl/eblopenbackend.c
>> index b301400..6628
On 11/25/2015 04:45 AM, Ben Gamari wrote:
> This could have easily saved me three hours.
> ---
> libebl/eblopenbackend.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/libebl/eblopenbackend.c b/libebl/eblopenbackend.c
> index b301400..662842d 100644
> --- a/libebl/eblo
This could have easily saved me three hours.
---
libebl/eblopenbackend.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/libebl/eblopenbackend.c b/libebl/eblopenbackend.c
index b301400..662842d 100644
--- a/libebl/eblopenbackend.c
+++ b/libebl/eblopenbackend.c
@@ -376,7 +376,
