gcc-3.1 builds for targets sh-hms
Nick Clifton
nickc@cambridge.redhat.com
Wed May 15 01:41:00 GMT 2002
Hi Rekha,
> But, before this patch, I was doing some r&d and was successful in
> building the binutils for sh-hms using --enable-bfd-assembler. Is it
> so, that the bfd-assembler is not to be used for sh-hms or by
> default it is not used?
By default it is not used. However this default ought to be
changed :-) Non-BFD assembler support is old and is slowly suffering
from bit rot. There is no really good reason why the sh-hms port
should not be using a BFD based assembler. I guess up until now no-one
actually tried building the sh-hms port.
> Uptill now I was considering coff and hms formats to be the
> same. What is the actual difference between the both?
To be honmest I do not know. I suspect that the hms format is
somebody's extensions to COFF. It is unlikely that they are very well
supported these days.
Cheers
Nick
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