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From: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: The continuing saga of Minix 'ar' on the SPARC
Keywords: Almost there....
Message-ID: <3570@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 11 Jan 91 02:23:09 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.151828@mobius.Viewlogic.COM> <12887@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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In <12887@wraxall.inmos.co.uk> des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) writes:

>In article <1991Jan9.151828@mobius.Viewlogic.COM>, greg@mobius.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin) writes:
>|> Well, the fight continues to get a SPARC executable to read a Minix
>|> .a file.
>|>
>|> However, when the first header structure is read out of the .a file,
>|> most everything in it does not come in correctly.
>|> Here's the struct for .a header:

>.... let me guess .... the header gets read in by a command like

>	fread(f, &hdr, sizeof (struct ar_hdr), 1);

>if so this is your problem. This is *NON-PORTABLE*. The Sparc

I forget about the 1.3 compiler, but the 1.5.10 ar.c packs and unpacks
properly (I think --- well at least the intent is there --- I haven't verified
that it works ok).

Perhaps you can upload the 1.5.10 ar.c first and try that one.

Earl
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Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168
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