undefined reference when mixing a.out and ELF object files ?

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Vincent,

> So I would like to 
> switch to ELF like everyone (and enjoy ELF benefits, too).

An excellent idea.

> I hoped that configuring gas for generating ELF object files would be 
> enough. That way, the new programs will use ELF object files, while 
> keeping the standard a.out-like executable format, and while being 
> compatible with the old a.out libraries. Unfortunately, it doesn't work 
> because of the "bug" described here :-(

Hmm, well the linker fix I mentioned would not help you in this case, 
since the linker would just emit an error message and refuse to link in 
the old libraries.

I assume that you do not have the option of recompiling these libraries 
with the new assembler in place, so that they are transformed into ELF 
format ?

Given that this aout-zero-big format is unsupported I think that 
recompiling the libraries may be the only answer.  Sorry.

Cheers
   Nick