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Re: h8300-elf port: gas patches


  In message <si3d6bagb4.fsf@daffy.airs.com>you write:
  > Those functions are not used with BFD_ASSEMBLER.  The h8/300 is an old
  > SAC port which did not use BFD_ASSEMBLER.  Using ELF requires using
  > BFD_ASSEMBLER.
Understood.  Somehow in my mind I thought the old H8 assembler was still
a BFD assembler.  Ugh.  What a pain.


  > A slightly cleaner way to make the above change would be to not define
  > them for BFD_ASSEMBLER.
Right.

  > An even better way would be to first rewrite
  > the COFF port to use BFD_ASSEMBLER, and then write the ELF port.
Agreed.  More likely the COFF specific bits will bitrot over time as folks
switch to the ELF tools.  I don't expect to see much effort expended
bringing the H8 COFF port up to modern standards.

jeff



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