port-alpha/60061: Endianness in /usr/lib/crt0.o

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>Number:         60061
>Category:       port-alpha
>Synopsis:       Endianness in /usr/lib/crt0.o
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    port-alpha-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 07 15:40:00 +0000 2026
>Originator:     Thomas Dettbarn
>Release:        8.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD herdplatte.deep.space 8.0 NetBSD 8.0 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Jul 17 14:59:51 UTC 2018  mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/GENERIC alpha

>Description:
This might seem like an odd bug report, but...
I took the liberty of installing NetBSD 8.0 on my DEC Alpha. 
Just for fun.
And also, just for fun, I decided to disassemble /usr/lib/crt0.o

Here is the result:

$ objdump -d /usr/lib/crt0.o 

/usr/lib/crt0.o:     file format elf64-alpha


Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000000000 <__start>:
   0:   00 00 bb 27     ldah    gp,0(t12)
   4:   00 00 bd 23     lda     gp,0(gp)
   8:   10 04 f1 47     mov     a1,a0
   c:   11 04 f2 47     mov     a2,a1
  10:   12 04 f3 47     mov     a3,a2
  14:   00 00 7d a7     ldq     t12,0(gp)
  18:   00 40 5b 6b     jsr     ra,(t12),1c <__start+0x1c>
  1c:   00 00 ba 27     ldah    gp,0(ra)
  20:   00 00 bd 23     lda     gp,0(gp)
  24:   47 ff 04 1f     .long 0x1f04ff47
  28:   47 ff 04 1f     .long 0x1f04ff47
  2c:   47 ff 04 1f     .long 0x1f04ff47

0000000000000030 <___start>:
  30:   00 00 bb 27     ldah    gp,0(t12)
...
    
 250:   1f 04 ff 47     nop  



OBVIOUSLY, the instructions at 24, 28, 2c seem to have an endianess Problem. They should read NOP, = 1f 04 ff 47, but they are the other way around.

This code is probably never being called, 
maybe somebody had some fun, 
it is NOT NECESSARY TO FIX IT, 
but it is definitely worth mentioning. And maybe something for the history books. :) 


>How-To-Repeat:
Not a problem, just some oddity!
>Fix:
With a hex editor.