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

[Dave Anderson]

Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com> [2007-12-21 15:00]:
> 
>>I like the addition of the machine-type verification error message.
>>
>>But why bother with the endian check?  Using your ppc64/x86_64
>>example, an architecture check/error message would make far
>>more sense.  The "endianness" error message implies that if
>>they re-compiled their ppc64 kernel little-endian that things
>>would work.
> 
> 
> I added it because if the dump is BE (like PPC64) then the
> elf64->e_type == ET_CORE check (also with ELF32) is always false and
> the code never got into the switch that checks the machine type.

I don't follow -- the e_type is not ET_CORE?

Dave