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From: jam@magic.com (James A. Markevitch)
Subject: [Unix-jun72] more corrections
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 10:44:38 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805011744.KAA15939@mist.magic.com> (raw)

> I wonder... hmmm.  if the V1 a.out header where 12 bytes long, then
> everything would just automagically work.

If you look at sysexec, you will see that the "magic number" for the
a.out header is 000405.  That is an instruction that jumps over the
first 12 bytes.

James Markevitch



             reply	other threads:[~2008-05-01 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-01 17:44 James A. Markevitch [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-01 16:09 Brad Parker
2008-05-01 17:03 ` Tim Newsham
2008-05-01 17:10   ` Al Kossow
2008-05-01 17:19   ` Brad Parker
2008-05-01 17:10 ` Tim Newsham
2008-05-01 17:22   ` Brad Parker
     [not found]     ` <Pine.BSI.4.64.0805010726040.20990@malasada.lava.net>
2008-05-01 17:47       ` Brad Parker
2008-05-01 17:54         ` Tim Newsham
2008-05-01 18:15           ` Tim Newsham
2008-05-01 18:21             ` Tim Newsham
2008-05-01 18:34             ` Tim Newsham
2008-05-01 22:51               ` Warren Toomey
2008-05-01 23:31                 ` Tim Newsham
2008-05-01 19:02         ` John Cowan
     [not found] ` <Pine.BSI.4.64.0805011927100.20114@malasada.lava.net>
2008-05-02 10:24   ` Brad Parker

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