Re: UltraSparc Solaris 8, too: Re: emacs compiles, yet dumps o exit (Solaris 9 x86)

[Ishikawa]

I am still trying to figure out why GCC 3.3 fails to
bootstrap Emacs 21.3 while GCC 3.2.3 succeeds.
(This is on UltraSparc Solaris 8 machine.)

Now I suspect that subtle memory layout in the
startup/end code of GCC 3.3 have broken
emacs-21.3/src/unexelf.c.

It is difficult to debug this problem without
being able to dump the contents of binary object
in a readable manner. I have to know the
used segment names and such.

As I look inside unexelf.c, I noticed that
some comments inside use a utility called "dump"
which obviously dumps the contents of the object
file and show the used segment (size, order, etc..) for
the benefit of authors of unexec() function for
elf format.

I wonder if anyone still has the copy of this "dump" utility
that can work with today's elf format.

(Or are there modern equivalents of which existence I am not
aware of?).

GCC 3.3 seems to be the next great release of GCC
once some quirks are ironed out, and I hope I can use this
for emacs compilation as well.

comments/feedback welcome.