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

[Bernhard Walle]

* 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.



Thanks,
   Bernhard