Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH] Fix for failure when using extensions on PPC64 target x86_64 binary

> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:16:06 +0000 > From: HAGIO KAZUHITO(?????) <k-hagio-ab(a)nec.com&gt; > To: "Discussion list for crash utility usage, maintenance and > development" <crash-utility(a)redhat.com&gt; > Subject: [Crash-utility] [PATCH] Fix for failure when using extensions > on PPC64 target x86_64 binary > Message-ID: > <OSBPR01MB1991B1B7CD686FBC72827E2BDD390(a)OSBPR01MB1991.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com&gt; > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" > > Without the patch, the "extend" command on an x86_64 binary that can > be used to analyze ppc64le dumpfiles fails with the error meesage > "extend: <path to extension>: not an ELF format object". > > Suggested-by: Arun Easi <aeasi.linux(a)gmail.com&gt; > Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio-ab(a)nec.com&gt; > --- > I'm not sure which tag I should use in this case, so if you want > me to use another one e.g. Signed-off-by, please let me know. > > symbols.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/symbols.c b/symbols.c > index d22fb1d9bdd1..603946db4f34 100644 > --- a/symbols.c > +++ b/symbols.c > @@ -3868,7 +3868,8 @@ is_shared_object(char *file) > break; > > case EM_X86_64: > - if (machine_type("X86_64") || machine_type("ARM64")) > + if (machine_type("X86_64") || machine_type("ARM64") || > + machine_type("PPC64")) For the other architectures such as S390, IA64, etc, is it possible to occur the similar problems on an x86_64 host? Or no one uses it like this?