From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Nathan Froyd <froydnj@codesourcery.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add --reverse option to objcopy
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070413145553.GA28589@lucon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070413144921.GB9017@sparrowhawk.codesourcery.com>
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 07:49:22AM -0700, Nathan Froyd wrote:
> The attached patch is a forward-port of a patch originally proposed by
> Thomas de Lellis:
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2000-03/msg00319.html
>
> The rationale from the original message:
>
> This patch solves problems trying to use the existing tools, to
> generate a ROM images for certain target systems where the byte order
> implemented in hardware did not match the endian the processor
> used. The ROM programmer did not have this functionality built in
> unfortunately.
>
> A new option "--reverse" has been added swap bytes within
> an output section... Given bytes in the order:
I was very curious what --reverse would do when I looked at the
subject. IMHO, --reverse-endian is clearer.
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-13 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-13 14:56 Nathan Froyd
2007-04-13 17:06 ` H. J. Lu [this message]
2007-04-20 13:35 ` Nick Clifton
2007-04-20 17:19 ` Nathan Froyd
2007-04-21 11:38 ` Nick Clifton
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