From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: <200803091753.m29HraqB004333@skeeve.com> References: <200803091753.m29HraqB004333@skeeve.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-1--853156728 Message-Id: <0B75E633-ED74-4AB9-8D3B-E881E9AE4AF6@mac.com> From: Pietro Gagliardi Subject: Re: [9fans] GCC/G++: some stress testing Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 14:28:29 -0400 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 741b224a-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --Apple-Mail-1--853156728 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Mar 9, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote: >> capabilities. Just looking at "binutils" and "bfd", without having >> the slightest idea what their real intent might be and how to >> apply it >> to P9GCC, then finding wonderful snippets such as > > Binutils are the things for dealing with binaries: as, ld, nm are > the primary ones. They're built on top of BFD (Binary File Descriptor) > which is essentially an object-oriented way of looking at object > file formats; the tools can be configured to be cross platform > and even convert an object file in say, a.out format to COFF or > from COFF to ELF, and so on. Just out of curiosity, what is the Plan 9 executable format? --Apple-Mail-1--853156728 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
On Mar 9, 2008, at = 1:53 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote:

capabilities.=A0 = Just looking at "binutils" and "bfd", without having

=

the slightest idea what = their real intent might be and how to apply it

to P9GCC, then finding = wonderful snippets such as


Binutils = are the things for dealing with binaries: as, ld, nm are

the primary ones. They're = built on top of BFD (Binary File Descriptor)

which is essentially an = object-oriented way of looking at object

file formats; the tools can be = configured to be cross platform

and even convert an object file in say, a.out format = to COFF or

from COFF = to ELF, and so on.


Just out of = curiosity, what is the Plan 9 executable format?

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