From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Faylor To: "John Kastner, Ph.D." Cc: cygwin@cygnus.com Subject: Re: objcopy converting a.out to ELF with DWARF2 for i386 Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 13:13:00 -0000 Message-id: <19990308161438.A8634@cygnus.com> In-reply-to: < 004301be69a3$043ffa40$3ca6b6cc@kastner.arium.com >; from John Kastner, Ph.D. on Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 12:34:08PM -0800 References: <004301be69a3$043ffa40$3ca6b6cc@kastner.arium.com> <004301be69a3$043ffa40$3ca6b6cc@kastner.arium.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00259.html On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 12:34:08PM -0800, John Kastner, Ph.D. wrote: >The company I work for would like to work with ELF/DWARF2 files. >However our user base still uses older a.out. We are looking into using >objcopy on a.out to produce ELF/DWARF2. We don't require perfect >fidelity but we are looking for a strong interim solution. We only need >an i386 solution (a.out-i386 to elf32-i386). > >Is anyone out there currently doing a similar extension to the tools? > >Is anyone out there interested in receiving our extensions if and when >we produce them? > >I welcome helpful comments and suggestions. It sounds like you would be changing binutils. You might want to send mail to bfd-gas@cygnus.com when you're done. The maintainers of bfd and gas (and binutils) might be interested in your changes. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Faylor To: "John Kastner, Ph.D." Cc: cygwin@cygnus.com Subject: Re: objcopy converting a.out to ELF with DWARF2 for i386 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19990308161438.A8634@cygnus.com> References: <004301be69a3$043ffa40$3ca6b6cc@kastner.arium.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00259.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.MA8r5zaYW1cZZ0e7bWu3TsmG4plO0gzJWQQfVTSlWQY@z> On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 12:34:08PM -0800, John Kastner, Ph.D. wrote: >The company I work for would like to work with ELF/DWARF2 files. >However our user base still uses older a.out. We are looking into using >objcopy on a.out to produce ELF/DWARF2. We don't require perfect >fidelity but we are looking for a strong interim solution. We only need >an i386 solution (a.out-i386 to elf32-i386). > >Is anyone out there currently doing a similar extension to the tools? > >Is anyone out there interested in receiving our extensions if and when >we produce them? > >I welcome helpful comments and suggestions. It sounds like you would be changing binutils. You might want to send mail to bfd-gas@cygnus.com when you're done. The maintainers of bfd and gas (and binutils) might be interested in your changes. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com