Re: elf2ecoff endianness bugs

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

> Hello,
> 
> elf2ecoff isn't generating valid symbol tables. It's both byte swapping
> when it shouldn't (same host and target endianness) and not swapping when
> it should.
> 
> For example, my crosstool objdump doesn't like an elf2ecoff'd sgimips
> kernel generated on amd64:
> 
> $ mipseb--netbsd-objdump -x netbsd.ecoff > /dev/null
> mipseb--netbsd-objdump: failed to read symbol table from: netbsd.ecoff
> mipseb--netbsd-objdump: error message was: file truncated
> 
> Same goes for an hpcmips (mipsel) kernel generated on amd64:
> $ mipsel--netbsd-objdump -x netbsd.ecoff > /dev/null
> mipsel--netbsd-objdump: netbsd.ecoff: bad value
> 
> The attached patch makes objdump able to read the ecoff symbol tables again.

Commited.

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2026/01/11/msg160144.html

Also fixed harmless ones:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2026/01/11/msg160145.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2026/01/11/msg160146.html

Thanks,
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Izumi Tsutsui