[BFD] COFF support for TIC6x

Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Thu Jun 27 15:01:00 GMT 2013


On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Wojciech Migda wrote:

> BFD from 2.23.2 version of binutils provides only ELF support for TIC6X. 
> Is tic6x-*-coff somewhere in the making ? If not, which reading 
> resources would you recommend if one would be interested in adding 
> support for tic6x-*-coff in BFD ?

As explained in the EABI (SPRAB89), "TI's compiler tools support both the 
new EABI and the older COFF ABI, although we encourage migration to the 
new ABI as support for the COFF ABI may be discontinued in the future.".  
It's not clear that adding support for an ABI that is being phased out is 
useful.  Note that GCC, for example, no longer supports any bare-metal 
COFF platforms, because bare-metal has migrated so completely to ELF in 
the GNU world.

That said, SPRAAO8 (not to be confused with SPRAA08) describes the C6X 
COFF format.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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