9508 – most significant bit (MSB) executables are not stripped

Bug 9508 - most significant bit (MSB) executables are not stripped

Summary: most significant bit (MSB) executables are not stripped

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-10-22 14:56 UTC by Stefan Jones (RETIRED)
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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prepallstrip.patch (prepallstrip.patch,429 bytes, patch) 2002-10-22 14:56 UTC, Stefan Jones (RETIRED)	Details \| Diff
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Description Stefan Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-10-22 14:56:02 UTC

Regarding the file /usr/lib/portage/bin/prepallstrip line 15:

The wrongful assumption that binaries will be in little endian, thus leaving
alpha, and ppc ppl with large executables.

You can have MSB and LSB

Comment 1 Stefan Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-10-22 14:56:58 UTC

Created attachment 4907 [details, diff]
prepallstrip.patch

The quick fix

Comment 2 Stefan Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-10-22 15:01:19 UTC

Joky at #gentoo-sparc on IRC should be credited with finding this one out after
his though search of his system.

I did nothing execpt write this

Comment 3 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-10-22 16:17:20 UTC

Will be in .42