Adding MIPS support to GOLD

[Rick Mann]

On Mar 25, 2008, at 10:22 AM, David Daney wrote:
> I was thinking about looking at MIPS support, however I think it may  
> be a bit complicated.  The Multi-GOT support is something that does  
> not exist for x86, so it would be completely new.  The rest (having  
> not looked at the gold source code yet), I think would be mostly  
> straight forward.


I consider myself a fairly expert programmer, but not in the area of  
language tools, and sadly it gets harder for me when looking at  
something like GCC and binutils (I'm really a Mac programmer, using  
the traditional Mac APIs). Is there someplace I can learn about the  
GOT, why multi-GOT exists for MIPS and not for x86, how it's used, etc.?

(If you give me a specific task in binutils, I can probably help. If  
you tell me to design something, I need to learn more about the  
problem domain.)

-- 
Rick