gnupic: emulating linker script functionality?
Subject:
Re: emulating linker script functionality?
From:
Craig Franklin ####@####.####
Date:
17 Dec 2002 02:42:00 -0000
Message-Id: <3DFE8E2F.D251CAD2@attbi.com>
Charles Lepple wrote:
> Also, if you've read this far, then maybe this next suggestion might
> interest you: has anyone considered integration with GNU binutils? I
> realize that a lot of work has been put into gputils, but the GNU linker
> is pretty advanced, and would make a nice framework. Plus, it already
> has a modular COFF support system which could be adapted to work with
> the Microchip object format (if it is indeed a variant of COFF). I have
> had some experience porting binutils, but at the moment my hands are
> tied (the FSF needs a copyright assignment from me, and my university is
> being a pain about signing it) so I can only answer porting questions at
> the moment (no code writing). Food for thought, anyway...
I considered using binutils, but decided against it. I reviewed the
hc11 and avr ports to get a feel for what challenges we would have. I
spoke with the people who did the work. I wasn't convienced it was the
best solution for us. We have a functioning assembler, COFF is straight
forward, and "rolling our own" allowed the greatest flexiblity. Don't
get me wrong, binutils is a great package, but it wasn't what we needed.
This weekend I got gpasm generating COFF objects. I successfully linked
the objects with mplink. I hope to commit the changes this weekend.
Once I do, I will finish up gplink.
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