Bug 215999

Summary:

binmisctl(8) man page provides wrong powerpc64 magic

Product:

Documentation

Reporter:

luca.pizzamiglio

Component:

Manual Pages

Assignee:

Justin Hibbits <jhibbits>

Status:

Closed FIXED

Severity:

Affects Many People

CC:

doc, jhibbits

Priority:

---

Keywords:

patch

Version:

Latest

Flags:

luca.pizzamiglio: maintainer-feedback?

Hardware:

Any

OS:

Any

Attachments:

Description	Flags
The fixing patch	none

Description luca.pizzamiglio 2017-01-12 15:54:34 UTC

Created attachment 178795 [details]
The fixing patch

The binmiscctl(8) man page provides several examples of magics that can be used with several architectures.

The powerpc64 example has a little error in the magic string: the EI_CLASS field (offset 0x04) should be 0x02 (64 bit) instead of 0x01 (32 bit)

Cross-compiled powerpc64 FreeBSD binaries confirm the error:

# hexdump -C -n 20 id
00000000  7f 45 4c 46 02 02 01 09  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.ELF............|
00000010  00 02 00 15                                       |....|

The attached patch can be applied to fix the man page

Comment 1 Justin Hibbits freebsd_committer

2017-09-04 20:54:38 UTC

Trivial.  Thanks for the patch!