migration problem?

[xinl]

Hi,

I am currently migrate a system from alpha machine( Digital Unix ) to intel 
machine ( Linux ). and there is a piece of code whose functionality is to 
extract all the information ( external symbol, local symbol, etc... just like 
objdump would do, but more specific ) from the alpha coff object file. in 
order to remain the functionality, i should write a piece of code to do the 
same thing. But , I found that the coff file format under linux ( i386-coff) 
are different with the format under alpha ( alpha-coff).

for i386-coff and alpha-coff format, they have almost the same file header, 
section header, and optional header data structure. BUT in alpha-coff, it has 
several data structure which seems doesn't exist in i386-coff format. such as 
symbolic header descriptor, file descriptor, procedure descriptor and so on. 
These data can be used to locate the external symbols, local symbols and other 
stuff which is very important for my migration use.

So, my question is, how can I fill the gap between the i386-coff and 
alpha-coff? 
do I miss any point here? or is there any good code example for me to follow 
up?

Thanks in advance!

yours,
Xin