Re: elf2ecoff patches for sgimips

Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:42:15 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:36:41AM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
> [ port-sgimips and port-pmax dropped from cc list ]
> 
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > OK, thanks for the feedback. I'll commit it.
> 
> Cool!
> 
> > Did anyone attempt at making it cross-compile friendly yet ?
> 
> One problem here is that the ecoff structures differ according to
> architecture.  To make this cross-friendly we'd probably need to
> define local mips-only ecoff structures.

It looks like this is already done. there's just a endian problem left,
which should be easy to solve.

> 
> The energy would probably be better spent trying to figure out
> exactly why objcopy isn't doing the right thing...

Sure, but I don't have any clues in objcopy or BFD. elf2ecoff is small enouth
for me to understand it before the end of the week :)

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Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
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