Subject: Re: HyperSPARC woes...
To: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
From: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/28/1996 09:41:50
At 14:10 -0800 10/26/96, Paul Kranenburg wrote:

>If someone knows of a sane workaround I'd love to hear about it. One trick
>I've thought about (but never tried) is to munge the a.out header to
>contain sufficient valid instructions (the magic number already is one)
>to keep rolling. Not my idea of sane, but...

If you check the magic numbers used with the PDP-11 in the dark ages, you
will find that it is a PC relative JMP instruction, which will jump over
the rest of the a.out structure and into the program. This is a time
honored solution...

	Erik