Subject: Re: Status of ELF for sh3?
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: port-sh3
Date: 01/27/2001 13:15:44
>: What's the status of switing to ELF for the NetBSD sh3 ports?
>
>Part of the problem is that currently, sh3 ELF is using symbols *WITHOUT*
>underscores.  Unless it's explicitly contradicted in the Super-H supplement
>to the ELF ABI, this needs to be changed (and "damn other vendors"--this is
>the MI ELF *standard*).

	if my understanding is correct,
	- some of Hitachi ICE and other debugging tools are using symbols
	  without underscores
	- gcc/binutils is synchronized to the above
	so if we add underscores, we cannot use those debugging tools.
	msaitoh should have more details...

itojun