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#1536

From: Mike Haertel
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1989 05:10

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In the various binutil programs, reading just an int from the
beginning of a file to get its magic number is idiotic.  What
if the magic number isn't an int, or isn't right at the beginning?
If the programs were properly written they would read a struct exec,
rather than making a kludgy assumption about its internal format.

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