Compiling memtest from sources on cygwin

[Gerrit P. Haase]

alexeik@nordlines.ru wrote:
> 
> Thank you for prompt response.  I have just installed my ancient copy of 
> Fedora and there 'make all' of memtest works OK. I also found 
> '.previous' in 'info as' (on cygwin):
> 
>> `.previous'
>> ===========
>>
>>    This is one of the ELF section stack manipulation directives.  The
>> others are `.section' (*note Section::), `.subsection' (*note
>> SubSection::), `.pushsection' (*note PushSection::), and `.popsection'
>> (*note PopSection::).

ELF is a different binary format.


>>    This directive swaps the current section (and subsection) with most
>> recently referenced section (and subsection) prior to this one.
>> Multiple `.previous' directives in a row will flip between two sections
>> (and their subsections).
>>
>>    In terms of the section stack, this directive swaps the current
>> section with the top section on the section stack.
> 
> 
> And since cygwin works under Windows I suspect, that cygwin people setup 
> the 'as' program to support windows loader. Now I am thinking -- should 
> I go to linux, or stay with cygwin. Actually I need to write a small 
> program, which works on bare metall w/o any o/s.

Windows binary format differs from ELF.  You need to port the program.


Gerrit
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