[Call for testers] "BSD ar"

Kai Wang kaiwang27 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 13 11:10:44 PST 2008


On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:39:15AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> Hi Kai,
> I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough - can your BSD 'ar', built on amd64
> handle both 32-bit (i.e., "i386") and 64-bit (i.e., "amd64) ELF archives?
> 
> >From the above it almost seems you're saying it can handle that plus more
> (other non-x86 arches).  Is that correct?

Yes. BSD 'ar' can handle all the ELF variants(64/32, LE/BE),
regardless of the arch it is built on . This is inherited from libelf.

--
Kai




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