From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Klein To: gas2@cygnus.com, egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Questions regarding submittals Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 12:21:00 -0000 Message-id: <3.0.3.32.19980905122057.00a5d100@garfield.dis.com> X-SW-Source: 1998/msg00215.html I'm about to submit my changes to bfd, gas and egcs for my port of same to the HP3000. However, before I do so, I have an ugly hack that I'd like to discuss to see if maybe there is a better way to accomplish what I need. When doing an extract from a library on the HP3000, MPE requires that the SOM Compilation Unit entries be filled in for each module, otherwise the extract results in a object named UNNAMED.o. When extracting the various tmplib*.a libraries to combine into libgcc.a, all the objects with the exception of the last object get lost as they keep overwriting UNNAMED.o. The hack that I used is to create a new pseudo directive in gas called .compiler that takes a string argument in order to update the Compilation Unit for each module. I modified ASM_IDENTIFY_GCC to include this pseudo directive. However, that also means I needed to include the directive in gcc/config/pa/*.asm. For MPE and the HP3000, that's OK because gas is the only assembler available there. However, on HP-UX it is possible to not use gas, and these directives would break that assembler. Is there a better way to approach this in order to communicate the pertinent information to gas in order to generate the SOM Compilation Unit records in BFD for MPE without breaking things elsewhere? Thanks in advance, Mark -- Mark Klein DIS International, Ltd. http://www.dis.com 415-892-8400 PGP Public Key Available Remove "nospam" to reply.