Looking to contribute OMF support

[Bernd Jendrissek <berndj at prism dot co dot za>]

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Hi all

It seems my employer should be willing to assign copyright for the OMF
support I've added using (in part) company time and equipment, to the
FSF.  I'll need one of those pre-paperwork-preparation forms that I've
seen around here regularly; would somebody please send me one of those?
Private email or here is fine.

Since this will be certainly my, and likely the company's, first such
submission, I'm a little daunted by the length (time) of the procedure.
I need to fill in a form for requesting the real form, right?  Is it
only the second set of forms which have to cross the ocean by
snail-mail?

As for the OMF support itself:

I wrote the object file format support against .OBJ files produced by
TopSpeed C 3.10, which AFAICT is supposed to be compatible with the MS
(and Borland too, probably) tools of the era, except that it defines a
few comment records for specifying dependencies, and defines multiple
sections with the same name (not sure how kosher that is to other
OMF-aware tools).

I didn't bother trying to write complete support, and I can't even
guarantee that I interpret records correctly either; this is one of
those "it works Well Enough For Me for what I want to do with it" ports.

Notably, what works WEFM is:
 - section dumping and disassembly and of course 'size' which was my
   scratch to my itch of wanting to know which modules needed the most
   memory
 - listing of symbols and relocations (OMF relocs are hell, expect bugs)
 - surprisingly to me, ld was able correctly to locate a tiny dummy
   module that contains "offset16" relocs.

NOT working or untested:
 - linking of more complex modules
 - objcopy
 - assembler output

I hope that's good enough for an otherwise nonexistent port?  (I'd
prefer to show-and-tell once the paperwork is done.)

- -- 
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in it.  How do you show that it works?
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