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Re: Assembly instructions storing structure
Hi Ashwin,
THanks you for your quick response. When I said "fix" I meant I wanted
to play with the instructions that are already generated. It is for
getting some results. Can you please tell me a little specificially
where in the frags are the instructions stored and the format they are
stored?
Thanks,
Balaji V. Iyer.
Ashwin Pathmudi wrote:
> hi,
>
> On 11/17/05, Balaji V. Iyer <bviyer@ncsu.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>> I am trying to port binutils to my propriatery architecture, and I
>> would like to do some "fix" before writing the instructions to the
>> file. I would to know where it stores the assembly instructions
>> before writing it to the file (like maybe a linked list or
>> something).
>>
>> I am currently using binutils-2.11.93
> The opcode for assembly instruction is written into a structure called
> frag. I've never worked on binutils-2.11 but its at least the case
> in 2.15. More info
> on frags can be got from gas/frags.h.
>
> When you say "fix" do you mean doing a fixup or you want to tamper with
> the
> object code of the already generated instruction ?
>
> HTH,
> cheers,
> Ashwin Pathmudi.
>
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Balaji V. Iyer
PhD Student
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University.
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