Using binutils with all target enabled

Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Thu Dec 2 00:10:00 GMT 2010


On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 14:27:10 Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> > I'd have hoped that specifying the the format explicits would have
> > been possible, but very few program seems to support such options.
> > Actually, only objdump (maybe others) accepts a '-b' flags.
> 
> ld has -m, objcopy/strip have -F/-O/-I, readelf doesnt care, addr2line/nm/size 
> have --target.  seems like just as, ar, and ranlib are missing command line 
> flags, and --target might be the logical flag to add to them.

I don't think as has any useful multi-target support; the code is full of 
uses of macros defined in target-specific headers.

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Joseph S. Myers
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