From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Fri Jan 30 11:55:03 2004 Message-ID: <401A376F.9000107@imperia.net> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:52:31 +0100 From: Guido Flohr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: de, ru, ar, en-us, en, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrice Mandin Cc: Mint list Subject: Re: [MiNT] Binutils References: <1074783339.29718.2.camel@pikachu.atari-source.com><20040122212901.1a89253b.mandin.patrice@w anadoo.fr> <20040122215456.2036a43b.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <20040122215456.2036a43b.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using F-Secure Antivirus at imperia.net Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: guido@imperia.net Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by prinz.cs.uni-magdeburg.de id i0UAt1o26119 Hi, Patrice Mandin wrote: > Le Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:38:12 +0100 (CET) > Frank Naumann a écrit: > > >>You are sure you know what elf means, how it works and what it requires >>for correct support? > > > OK, maybe I'm a bit too optimistic about it. However, I would like a real > virtual memory support under MiNT (with mmap() and the like), so we can > have real shared libraries (using ELF of course, this is why I would like > to have support for it in binutils). Having mmap() is not sufficient for ELF shared libraries ... But _static_ ELF support is an important step to dynamically linked executables. Why don't you just go ahead and start with that? It will be a fair amount of work and it has to be done anyway. Once, MiNT supports static object files, and statically linked executables, there is at least a solid base for developping the dynamic stuff. Ciao Guido -- Imperia AG, Development Leyboldstr. 10 - D-50354 Hürth - http://www.imperia.net/