Re: Support for sh-symbian-elf target

[Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>]

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 09:15, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> > One question:
> >
> > If the port is to Symbian OS, why does "symbian" appear in the
> > manufacturer field of the configure triplet and not the OS field
> > (eg. sh-unknown-symbian)?
>
> Because - get this - their OS supports both COFF and ELF binaries and
> they wanted to be able to distinguish between toolchains that generated
> code for a particular file format.  I supposed that strictly speaking
> the configuration triplet should have been "sh-unknown-symbianelf" or
> "sh-unknown-symbiancoff" but that was rather clumsy and also implies
> that they are using a somehow non-standard version of ELF or COFF, when
> in fact they are using perfectly normal versions.

This naming scheme is already used for NetBSD. eg. you have
arm-unknown-netbsd (a.out) and arm-unknown-netbsdelf (elf).
AFAIK there's nothing nonstandard about the netbsd version of ELF.

Paul