From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25493 invoked by alias); 14 May 2002 17:25:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 25445 invoked from network); 14 May 2002 17:25:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rwcrmhc54.attbi.com) (216.148.227.87) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 14 May 2002 17:25:51 -0000 Received: from ocean.lucon.org ([12.234.143.38]) by rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020514170956.XESC25765.rwcrmhc54.attbi.com@ocean.lucon.org>; Tue, 14 May 2002 17:09:56 +0000 Received: by ocean.lucon.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1552D125C1; Tue, 14 May 2002 10:09:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 10:25:00 -0000 From: "H . J . Lu" To: saresc@hotmail.com, nickc@cambridge.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: binutils Message-ID: <20020514100955.A6790@lucon.org> References: <20020514091109.A5895@lucon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ian@airs.com on Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:51:17AM -0700 X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00305.txt.bz2 On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:51:17AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > "H . J . Lu" writes: > > > You can't convert coff executable to ELF. It is not going to work without > > extensive changes in binutils. > > Why not? Provided it is statically linked, and is laid out in memory > to only require a couple of program segments. > > You can't convert a COFF object to ELF, but why can't you convert an > executable? I don't know any Linux supports the ABI used by COFF. You may run COFF executables with SCO emulation. But I don't think you can run an ELF executable converted from COFF under Linux. H.J.