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Subject: Re: Using binutils with all target enabled
From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
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Hi,

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> w=
rote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 14:27:10 Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>> > I'd have hoped that specifying the the format explicits would have
>> > been possible, but very few program seems to support such options.
>> > Actually, only objdump (maybe others) accepts a '-b' flags.
>>
>> ld has -m, objcopy/strip have -F/-O/-I, readelf doesnt care, addr2line/n=
m/size
>> have --target. =A0seems like just as, ar, and ranlib are missing command=
 line
>> flags, and --target might be the logical flag to add to them.
>
> I don't think as has any useful multi-target support; the code is full of
> uses of macros defined in target-specific headers.
>
I was talking about ar/ranlib here, not `as'. I'm fine with having a
target specific `as'.

 - Arnaud