Re: [PATCH] OMF support for BFD

[Paul Smedley <paul at smedley dot id dot au>]

Hi Bernd,

On 19/09/11 03:09, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Hans-Peter Nilsson<hp@bitrange.com>  wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
> > > Does anybody have access to MASM?  For that matter, Borland's Turbo
> > > Assembler?
> >
> > You don't mention it, so... wouldn't wasm
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Watcom_Assembler>  help?
>
> The more, the merrier.  In particular, I'm hoping there's an assembler
> out there (or compiler, for that matter) that "optimizes" relocations
> by gathering common relocation "targets" (read: addends) into what OMF
> calls THREAD subrecords of the FIXUPP record.  (And then references
> these THREADs in subsequent FIXUPs instead of specifying the "targets"
> separately in each FIXUP.  Neither NASM nor Turbo Assembler (with DJ's
> simple test objects) seem to do this.

I posted on your site, but omf is also used on OS/2.  Currently OS/2 gcc 
use a.out but the linker converts to omf on the fly.

Thanks for your work on this - it's interesting to a few OS/2 nerds too :)

Cheers,

Paul