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Re: Who maintains or makes fixes for ld for AIX?
- To: Tom Rix <trix at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Who maintains or makes fixes for ld for AIX?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:46:17 -0500
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:52:00PM -0600, Tom Rix wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:39:02PM -0600, Tom Rix wrote:
> > > I have done some hacking to do a x86 linux-x- ppc aix binutils. The only
> > > big problem you will have is with bfd & core files. The core routines are
> > > very dependent on the aix system headers. I spent a little time trying to
> > > unravel the structures but it was a real pain and I moved on.
> >
> > Have you tried recently? Might want to look again; all you should need
> > to do is extract two or three constants (er... I think. Does AIX use
> > ELF core dumps?)
>
> I'll check it out tomarrow. From what I remember it was a couple of "simple"
> macros but they depended on the process structure and that got hairy real
> quick. I think some work was done to set the core functions pointers to stubs
> in cross configs but have not varified.
>
> No AIX is xcoff based.
>
> An elf loader of AIX would be a cool hack.
OK, I take it back then. I only really did the work for ELF; but
perhaps it will be a useful template.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer