From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Aug 4 14:56:46 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Message-ID: <42F21025.9020406@gabo.pl> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 14:55:01 +0200 From: Adam Klobukowski User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: pl, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MiNT-Liste Subject: Re: [MiNT] obsolete aout binutils? References: <1123125355.27393.11.camel@mduckworth.phillypark.net> <20050804102121.2d02b87d.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> <1123144595.7665.0.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <1123149042.18101.9.camel@evil.atari-source.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: atari@gabo.pl Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by wh58-508.st.uni-magdeburg.de id j74Cukea007083 Philipp Donzé napisał(a): > Hi > >> Are you sure this is possible? The biggest problem of the MiNT port of >> the binutils was to remember all relocations and write the relocation >> information table that is needed by the Atari format (it's even not >> unix a.out). > > > No I'm not sure. I'm not that experienced with these Unix binary > formats. Its hard to find a good explanation for these on the web. All I > know comes from sources on the web. I.e. at > http://www.mcvax.org/~koen/uClinux-cisco2500/exotica.html it's written > that uClinux on coldfire processor uses relocation table in the flat > binary. > Also you can read at > http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=5&topic=elf about "relocation > section". So I think ELF doesn't forget about this information. > Perhaps there are numerous different ELF variants? (Linux, FreeBSD, > Sun,...) I've found this: http://www.x86.org/ftp/manuals/tools/elf.pdf It has 'Relocation' in it. I'm begin to read. -- Semper Fidelis Adam Klobukowski atari@gabo.pl