* simple program
@ 2011-07-14 3:57 Bill Cunningham
2011-07-14 11:18 ` Will Newton
2011-07-15 10:55 ` Nick Clifton
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From: Bill Cunningham @ 2011-07-14 3:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: binutils
I am just looking at the library and since everyone seems to start out
with their first progam being "hello world" is there a way to do that with
BFD? Maybe calling bfd_init(void) and then simply using bfd_perror to print
a string? Or would there be a better way?
I hope this is the appropriate list for this. There doesn't seem to be
any otherlists except for CVS questions and bug reports.
Bill
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2011-07-14 3:57 simple program Bill Cunningham
@ 2011-07-14 11:18 ` Will Newton
2011-07-15 10:55 ` Nick Clifton
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From: Will Newton @ 2011-07-14 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bill Cunningham; +Cc: binutils
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Bill Cunningham <billcun@suddenlink.net> wrote:
> I am just looking at the library and since everyone seems to start out
> with their first progam being "hello world" is there a way to do that with
> BFD? Maybe calling bfd_init(void) and then simply using bfd_perror to print
> a string? Or would there be a better way?
It depends what you want to do - bfd_perror isn't necessarily that
representative of the BFD API as a whole. It might be useful to start
with one of the smaller binutils programs and learn from that. size.c
seems like it might be a good candidate.
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* Re: simple program
2011-07-14 3:57 simple program Bill Cunningham
2011-07-14 11:18 ` Will Newton
@ 2011-07-15 10:55 ` Nick Clifton
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From: Nick Clifton @ 2011-07-15 10:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bill Cunningham; +Cc: binutils
Hi Bill,
> I am just looking at the library and since everyone seems to start out
> with their first program being "hello world" is there a way to do that
> with BFD?
Hello world is really more appropriate as a first test for programming
languages. BFD is a library intended for the manipulation of binary
files, not general purpose programming.
A more reasonable first test might be to write a program that tells you
the type any files provided on its command line. (Like the "file" program).
> I hope this is the appropriate list for this. There doesn't seem to be
> any other lists except for CVS questions and bug reports.
This is the correct list.
Cheers
Nick
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