Re: [HACKERS] Checking if a system is ELF

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 08:20:31PM -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> Thus spake Ross J. Reedstrom
> > tatabox% echo __ELF__ | gcc -E -
> > # 1 ""
> > __ELF__
>
> This implies that tatabox is not an ELF system. Is that accurate?
>
> > wallace$ echo __ELF__ | gcc -E -
> > # 1 ""
> > 1
>
> And this says that wallace is. Correct or no?
>

Quite correct. I had the logic backwords from the original suggestion.
I can only plead pre-dinner hunger - lack of glucose to the brain ;-)

Don't know about feeding the native cc on stdin. Probably have to
create a temp file and compile that.

Ross

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Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
Computer and Information Technology Institute
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