From f7603dcb6ffb73cdc4633b8f8f5832a2fc1cc442 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: whitequark <whitequark@whitequark.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:02:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] compiler: fix ARTIQ_DUMP_ELF.

---
 artiq/compiler/targets.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/artiq/compiler/targets.py b/artiq/compiler/targets.py
index 34f85d85f..ba79e0121 100644
--- a/artiq/compiler/targets.py
+++ b/artiq/compiler/targets.py
@@ -46,12 +46,14 @@ class RunTool:
 def _dump(target, kind, suffix, content):
     if target is not None:
         print("====== {} DUMP ======".format(kind.upper()), file=sys.stderr)
-        content_bytes = bytes(content(), 'utf-8')
+        content_value = content()
+        if isinstance(content_value, str):
+            content_value = bytes(content_value, 'utf-8')
         if target == "":
             file = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=suffix, delete=False)
         else:
             file = open(target + suffix, "wb")
-        file.write(content_bytes)
+        file.write(content_value)
         file.close()
         print("{} dumped as {}".format(kind, file.name), file=sys.stderr)