Fwd: Re: BFD for the HP3000

[Mark Klein]

>At 01:44 PM 3/30/99 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
>>Boy, this sounds like it could get ugly.  What sort of calls do you
>>need to generate?
>
>There is a binary filecode that needs to get added to the filelabel. The
>fopen() call should be replaced with something called HPFopen(). Alternately,
>I could build an fopen() wrapper that in turn calls HPFopen(), but I still
>need to be able to identify which attribute (relocatable, archive or program)
>needs to be applied to the open through an additional parameter.
>
>>I don't think that will be right.  Think about using HP3000 as the
>>host for a cross compiler to some other system.
>
>Good point. My other choice is to build a new BFD for each type, but that
could
>get ugly too, since bfd_object can apply to both relocatable objects as
well as
>program objects. At least bfd_archive is separate.

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