From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11973 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 2001 16:28:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 11899 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2001 16:28:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ep09.kernel.pl) (212.160.181.1) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Dec 2001 16:28:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 16714 invoked by uid 566); 7 Dec 2001 16:28:24 -0000 Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 08:35:00 -0000 From: Michal Moskal To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: More code removal, mips ecoff support Message-ID: <20011207172824.A14943@ep09.kernel.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200112062359.PAA21562@kankakee.wrs.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00366.txt.bz2 On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 03:59:36PM -0800, mike stump wrote: > > From: Eric Christopher > > To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org > > Date: 06 Dec 2001 15:14:32 -0800 > > > I'm looking at current OSs that support ecoff on mips or any objections > > to removing the ecoff support from the backend. Anyone? > > It might be interesting to to contemplate annoucing the desupporting > of all non-elf system, and removing all non-elf code. Before that > could be done, we'd need to run a user survey for months and months to > collect user opinion. This would help consolidate everyone towards > elf, if they had been dragging their feet. > > The theory would be, generate elf everywhere, and if the end user OMF > is different in the end, have them objcopy (extending objcopy as > necessary) from elf to the format they want. > > A limitation would be, things like link once sections and a.out. You > would have to objcopy fully resolved non-relocatable files to be a.out > files, one, in general could not just copy a single .o elf file, to a > single .o a.out file. Also, binutils doesn't always copy relocs > correctly, thus, it would either have to be fixed, or again, one would > have to copy fully linked files. Isn't linux booting from ecoff image on mips (at least when loading kernel from network)? Will it be still possible? -- : Michal ``,/\/\, '' Moskal | | : GCS {C,UL}++++$ : | |alekith @ |)|(| . org . pl : {E--, W, w-,M}- : Linux: We are dot in .ORG. | : {b,e>+}++ !tv h : CurProj: ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/people/malekith/ksi : PLD Team member