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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] PANIC: Top-of-file arch tag crosses 1k boundary


From: Tom Lord
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] PANIC: Top-of-file arch tag crosses 1k boundary
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:13:14 -0700 (PDT)

    > From: "Robert Anderson" <address@hidden>

    > Shouldn't the algorithm look for the tag at the "bottom" location
    > _first_?  And only if no tag is found, to search the top?

Unfortunate backwards compatability issue there.   No, it needs to
search the top first.   The recently added error check is a good thing
-- it should even be mirrored to check truncation of tags at the
bottom..... but it appears to have been slightly botched in the
current instance.

-t





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