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authorGabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>2008-03-20 02:10:21 -0400
committerGabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>2008-03-20 02:10:21 -0400
commit3fe1af795243b42bd957d5fc6f243bb63f603f7d (patch)
treea7f7abb0eb47582256fda87624ea4c9adc1f8b78 /src/base
parent3de8a78a04b1d1c5e901f3613b6247da9cf00a9c (diff)
downloadgem5-3fe1af795243b42bd957d5fc6f243bb63f603f7d.tar.xz
MIPS: Check endianness of binaries in SE mode.
--HG-- extra : convert_revision : e6c4bda6078eb68a26f8834411f744078c6bf5a9
Diffstat (limited to 'src/base')
-rw-r--r--src/base/loader/elf_object.cc8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/base/loader/elf_object.cc b/src/base/loader/elf_object.cc
index 8e41ffd16..4c3f694e5 100644
--- a/src/base/loader/elf_object.cc
+++ b/src/base/loader/elf_object.cc
@@ -79,7 +79,13 @@ ElfObject::tryFile(const string &fname, int fd, size_t len, uint8_t *data)
arch = ObjectFile::SPARC32;
} else if (ehdr.e_machine == EM_MIPS
&& ehdr.e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS32) {
- arch = ObjectFile::Mips;
+ if (ehdr.e_ident[EI_DATA] == ELFDATA2LSB) {
+ arch = ObjectFile::Mips;
+ } else {
+ fatal("The binary you're trying to load is compiled for big "
+ "endian MIPS. M5\nonly supports little endian MIPS. "
+ "Please recompile your binary.\n");
+ }
} else if (ehdr.e_machine == EM_X86_64 &&
ehdr.e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS64) {
//In the future, we might want to differentiate between 32 bit