Subject: Re: elf2ecoff patches for sgimips
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-mips
Date: 03/19/2002 23:42:15
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 <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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