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")) return TRUE; break; -- 1.8.3.1