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Re: Resurrecting hppa-elf
- To: Alan Modra <alan at linuxcare dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: Resurrecting hppa-elf
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:06:32 -0600
- cc: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004191202460.32725-100000@front.linuxcare.com.au>y
ou write:
> On 21 Feb 2000, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
> > > The quick fix is probably to remove elf32-hppa.lo from BFD32_BACKEND
> S
> > > in bfd/Makefile.{am.in}.
> >
> > Thanks. I checked in patches along these lines.
>
> Has anyone looked at fixing hppa-elf? I'd like to merge fixes from
> http://www.thepuffingroup.com/parisc/cvs.html, and wean them off their
> binutils tree.
The 32bit PA elf needs a *complete and total* rewrite. Anything based on
the old code is horribly broken.
I've tried to explain the issues to HP & the puffins, but they weren't
particularly interested in listening to why the old 32 PA elf code was
totally inappropriate for their needs. I sincerely hope they didn't
resurrect the old stuff.
jeff