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
next prev parent 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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