[ECOS] MCore?
Gordy Perkins
goperkins@minnetronix.com
Wed Apr 28 13:25:00 GMT 1999
Motorola supplies GNU tools for MCore. Has anyone been using them for
eCos?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lance Taylor [SMTP:ian@airs.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 2:04 PM
> To: jlarmour@cygnus.co.uk
> Cc: ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: CPU Ports for eCos
>
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:59:42 +0100
> From: jlarmour@cygnus.co.uk (Jonathan Larmour)
>
> >In the medium to long term, yes. Technically ELF is superior to
> older
> >object formats such as a.out and COFF, it makes it much easier to
> >implement facilities such as constructor priority ordering and
> >selective linking.
>
> Just to add my 2p, I believe it would be possible to get things to
> work
> with ECOFF too, but it would require similar modifications to
> gcc/gld that
> were made to the ELF support to support constructor priority
> ordering. I
> believe a.out and vanilla COFF would be as good as impossible to do
> though.
>
> ECOFF can't support arbitrary sections. ECOFF relocs only support a
> limited number of sections. Look for RELOC_SECTION in
> include/coff/ecoff.h in a GNU binutils or gdb release.
>
> Ian
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