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From: gusw@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Gunther Schadow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: GNU binutils?
Date: 24 Mar 1997 13:47:08 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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I am still experimenting with foreign binary formats to import them
into FreeBSD native a.out format. With the GNU bfd library and
objcopy, I am able to convert between the following formats:
SCO/SOLARIS x86 coff-i386
LINUX elf32-i386
??? a.out-i386-freebsd
??? a.out-i386-bsd
Objcopy does a good job converting whole library archives, and apart
from unmappable .notes and .comments sections (which I suppose are
unfunctional anyway), the conversion ends up in reasonable looking
code. file(1) detects something useful, but our native bin-utils wont
be able to read the symbol tables. On the other hand, objcopy refuses
to read a native FreeBSD a.out.
Is it really absolutely so hard to support the FreeBSD a.out in the
GNU binutils? Some kind soul made a freebsd port early 1996, but for
some reason this never really worked.
Is anybody working on this? From scanning through the mailing list
archives, I would even suggest this is a FAQ.
regards
-Gunther
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Gunther Schadow------------------Windsteiner Weg 54a, Berlin 14165, FR. Germany
Dept. of Anaesthesia, Benjamin Franklin University Hospital, Berlin.
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