From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
To: robertl@dgii.com
Cc: gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: emulation on i386-coff, i386-elf patches
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 10:50:00 -0000
Message-id: <9701081850.AA12331@tweedledumb.cygnus.com>
References: <m0vi2Id-0002W5C@rjlhome.dgii.com>
X-SW-Source: 1997/msg00002.html

   Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:00:26 -0600 (CST)
   From: Robert Lipe <robertl@dgii.com>

   However, the COFF version has a problem that isn't obvious to me.  Here
   is a disassembly of the same .s file generated with the native COFF=20
   assembler and with this assembler in COFF  mode.

It looks to me like you need to hack md_apply_fix3 in tc-i386.c.  In
general, anything that does an #ifdef OBJ_ELF or #ifdef OBJ_COFF will
have to be hacked.

In fact, I'm not certain that the BFD_ASSEMBLER version of the i386
COFF assembler works correctly.  You need to make sure that if you
configure with --target i386-coff --enable-bfd-assembler the resulting
code works.

By the way, for some reason your patch came in scrambled, with lots of
=20 strings scattered around.  I can never remember how to get rid of
those.

Ian