Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH] Improve error handling when architecture doesn't match

Actually this patch has just turned up different issues that have to be handled, because the e_type and e_phnum get deferred until after the e_machine and endianness are checked. Among them the fact that an i386 xen guest core file taken by an x86_64 host has the e_machine type set to x86_64 (don't ask me why they did that...), and has an e_phnum of 0. Anyway, that requires the e_phnum to be checked *before* the machine type and endianness. And another, since the e_type doesn't get checked until *after* the machine type and endianness, it allows the vmlinux file (ET_EXEC) to get passed through, which can generate a bogus error message about the vmlinux file! And there's probably others... There was a method to my madness in the way it's written now. I'm going to have to spend some more time with this because I don't want to introduce false alarms or print error messages that don't make any sense...