From: artk@congruent.com (Arthur Kreitman)
To: erich@uruk.org
Cc: gas2@cygnus.com, bfd@cygnus.com
Subject: traditional Intel & Microsoft formats...
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 1994 08:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9411091639.AA07216@Congruent.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199411091607.IAA20118@uruk.org>
> From: Erich Stefan Boleyn <erich@uruk.org>
>
> Greetings.
>
> I'm curious if there is an intention of any on these lists to
> try to be able to (for the i386 processor series):
>
> 1) assemble (GAS) and manipulate (BFD) traditional Intel/Microsoft
> 16-bit code (OMF/NE formats).
>
> 2) assemble (GAS) and manipulate (BFD) traditional Intel/Microsoft
> 32-bit code (OMF/PE formats).
You should be aware that the "microsoft" formats are being dropped
by microsoft. All future microsoft 32 bit systems are sort of
coff based.
As far as gas is concerned, only minor changes are required to
support microsoft's coff interperation (we've done it, and will
be integrating the changes into the latest gas release, and contributing
back the changes to the fsf).
ar only makes sense if you have ld. For ld to work with Windows NT
and Windows95 require more changes then you can imagine. Its at
least several man years of work. There's the further problem that
much of it must be done by reverse engineering microsoft executables.
If gnu cared about market impact, Windows95 support would take the
highest priority. I don't think that the gnu community realizes the
potential (and the impact) of every pc being a workstation class device
with a sophisticated, multitasking, multithreaded operating system.
Remember, the windows install base is 70,000,000.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1994-11-09 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-11-09 8:05 Erich Stefan Boleyn
1994-11-09 8:59 ` Arthur Kreitman [this message]
1994-11-09 9:41 ` Erich Stefan Boleyn
1994-11-09 9:56 ` DJ Delorie
1994-11-09 9:57 ` Ken Raeburn
1994-11-09 10:33 ` DJ Delorie
1994-11-09 11:56 ` Erich Stefan Boleyn
1994-11-09 10:49 ` Arthur Kreitman
1994-11-09 12:02 ` Erich Stefan Boleyn
1994-11-10 8:22 ` Richard Stallman
1994-11-10 8:11 ` Richard Stallman
1994-11-10 9:35 ` Erich Stefan Boleyn
1994-11-10 22:53 ` John Gilmore
1994-11-10 23:25 ` John Gilmore
1994-11-11 5:34 ` Arthur Kreitman
1994-11-11 8:31 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1994-11-11 10:21 ` Erich Stefan Boleyn
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