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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