From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Krister Walfridsson To: bfd@cygnus.com Subject: a.out questions Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 13:02:00 -0000 Message-id: X-SW-Source: 1998/msg00049.html I'm in the process of porting binutils to NetBSD's a.out shared library format, and I have a couple of questions... In our exec header, there is a flag that tells if the code in the file is position independent. Should I add this to the flags in BFD, or is this attribute obscure enough to keep only as private data in the a.out backend? Since I thought that our a.out format was close to sunos, I have based my version on sunos.c. There are however two differences that are big enough to cause problems; - The nlist pointed to by the dynamic_link structure isn't a nlist in NetBSD (it's a nlist with on word appended.) This does unfortunatly break (at least) aout_link_add_symbols() in aoutx.h - Weak symbols are handled by setting a flag in the n_other field (instead of handling it in n_type that binutils does). This breaks the conversion functions in aoutx.h. Are there any hooks I have missed that can solve my problems? As far I can see, the hooks are present on a too high level, so I end up duplicating nearly the whole aoutx.h. Or should I try to add new hooks? By the way, are this mailing list the correct place to discuss changes to ld, or are there a ld list somewhere? /Krister