Hi Vineet, On Fri, 2018-06-01 at 09:12 -0700, Vineet Gupta wrote: > On 06/01/2018 03:49 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > > It might be a good idea to explicitly specify BFD format > > depending on -EB/-EL option passed to the linker and not rely on > > default behavior as we have now. > > What exactly is the problem we are trying to solve here ? > Is this preventive or did you run into something - if latter can u explain it here > please ? Right, this is preventive patch. As Claus mentioned that's good to have this explicit information for BFD but otherwise there's no clear requirement or even recommendation on OUTPUT_FORMAT usage so that might not be needed. -Alexey