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Re: Adding MIPS support to GOLD
- From: David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>
- To: Rick Mann <rmann at latencyzero dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:22:22 -0700
- Subject: Re: Adding MIPS support to GOLD
- References: <E3BB9705-87B9-4E9C-B234-52D23319A440@latencyzero.com>
Rick Mann wrote:
What would it take to add MIPS support? We work on a large embedded
platform (designed in-house) that uses both ia32 and MIPS. Our builds
take FOR-E-VER, and linking is a big part of that.
I have no idea what's involved in targeting a new architecture. How hard
is it?
I was thinking about looking at MIPS support, however I think it may be
a bit complicated. The Multi-GOT support is something that does not
exist for x86, so it would be completely new. The rest (having not
looked at the gold source code yet), I think would be mostly straight
forward.
David Daney