h8300-elf port: gas patches
law@redhat.com
law@redhat.com
Wed Aug 29 09:11:00 GMT 2001
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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