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From: law@redhat.com
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
Cc: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@redhat.com>, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: h8300-elf port: gas patches
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16698.999101631@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <si3d6bagb4.fsf@daffy.airs.com>

  In message < si3d6bagb4.fsf@daffy.airs.com >you write:
  > Those functions are not used with BFD_ASSEMBLER.  The h8/300 is an old
  > SAC port which did not use BFD_ASSEMBLER.  Using ELF requires using
  > BFD_ASSEMBLER.
Understood.  Somehow in my mind I thought the old H8 assembler was still
a BFD assembler.  Ugh.  What a pain.


  > A slightly cleaner way to make the above change would be to not define
  > them for BFD_ASSEMBLER.
Right.

  > An even better way would be to first rewrite
  > the COFF port to use BFD_ASSEMBLER, and then write the ELF port.
Agreed.  More likely the COFF specific bits will bitrot over time as folks
switch to the ELF tools.  I don't expect to see much effort expended
bringing the H8 COFF port up to modern standards.

jeff


  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-29  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-28 15:30 Joern Rennecke
2001-08-28 16:38 ` law
2001-08-28 16:57   ` Ian Lance Taylor
2001-08-29  9:11     ` law [this message]
2001-08-28 17:30   ` Joern Rennecke
2001-08-29  9:09     ` law
2001-08-29 11:50       ` Joern Rennecke
2001-08-30 10:24         ` law
2001-08-30 13:31           ` Joern Rennecke
2001-08-30 13:42             ` law

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