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From: Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au>
To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Can we emulate i386-pc-pe-coff with i386coff?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 19:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006151243270.11751-100000@front.linuxcare.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000614110753.A2720@valinux.com>

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, H . J . Lu wrote:

> I don't think we can emulate i386-pc-pe-coff with i386coff. I don't
> even know we can emulate i386-pc-pe-coff at all. The problem is
> config/tc-i386.c has #ifdef TE_PE inside. We need to modify it to
> check TE_PE at the runtime or do something else. Anyway, this patch
> disable the i386coff emulation for i386-pc-pe-coff.

Agreed.  I dislike all those #ifdefs.  What's really needed is an overhaul
of the generic reloc handling code so that all the back-end fudges can be
removed.  A major undertaking.

-- 
Linuxcare.  Support for the Revolution.

  reply	other threads:[~2000-06-14 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-14 11:08 H . J . Lu
2000-06-14 19:48 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2000-06-18  9:41   ` My i386-pc-pe-coff pacth to gas/configure.in [Re: Can we emulate i386-pc-pe-coff with i386coff?] H . J . Lu
2000-06-16  7:54 ` New cross toolchain development utility Steve Hill

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