From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24262 invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2013 07:22:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 24252 invoked by uid 89); 15 Oct 2013 07:22:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtp01.hiroshima-u.ac.jp Received: from smtp01.hiroshima-u.ac.jp (HELO smtp01.hiroshima-u.ac.jp) (133.41.15.116) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:22:22 +0000 Received: from smtp01.hiroshima-u.ac.jp (smtp01.hiroshima-u.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by dummy.hiroshima-u.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA51E78009; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:22:19 +0900 (JST) Received: from [10.34.73.19] (202-137.cup.hiroshima-u.ac.jp [133.41.202.137]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp01.hiroshima-u.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65138E78008; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:22:19 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <525CED26.1000403@hiroshima-u.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:22:00 -0000 From: suzuki toshiya Reply-To: Binutils Development User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130518 Icedove/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Megora Chai CC: Binutils Development Subject: Re: [ld] ld COFF support?? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-imss-scan-details: No--6.234-10.0-31-10 X-TMASE-MatchedRID: X41QhRrT5f5ITndh1lLRAZKjwcj8fgyJWyQijpt1UQk3XlVVGX0OkeJo gdrPWiEATo+By9klvCDLBuNphimWPwcb6hGUQ2tTJrUxoq6hvw8L8TGleseLPGCD5SM8YvVFGIe 6eCIO/5M8++chdv/5WCybAOQnGnXoWHukbEwz0n05f9Xw/xqKXdr835OrKH5+66cYQGo+KX4qGF x21ziLIQtuKBGekqUpI/NGWt0UYPB6DhKqnt6FG2q7VZU4cHjtMzuGG32rH9jGOKQ8mk+iMsTni hm4os/F X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00233.txt.bz2 There are so many variants of COFF, some are supported and others are not yet. But if you focus on a variant by Microsoft, so-called "PE" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable ), binutils LD supports it. Regards, mpsuzuki On 10/15/2013 04:12 PM, Megora Chai wrote: > Hello, > > For a school assignment we are looking at how different file formats are linked. I am trying to examine the linking process of some formats using ld from binutils. Is LD able to link COFF format files (.obj or .lib) generated by microsoft tools? > > Thank you. > M Chai