Re: [MiNT] Incorporating other calls into the

["Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 12:30:29PM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
> GEMDOS binaries and DR object files are the same format.

Fine.

> 
> > Any idea how to handle pc relative relocations?  Lose?
> 
> If it's relative, it doesn't need fixup, right?

I'm not sure whether there may ever be pc rel relocations for MiNT a.out
object files.  If they exist we lose because I don't know how I should
squeeze that into the DR relocation concept.

> > What does the index file look like?
> 
> You mean in the archive file? -- I can try to find that, but it's certainly
> not used by PureC.

It's not so important.  Lonny says that he has some kind of ranlib for
these archives.  He can always run it over the converted lib.  BTW, I'm
not sure if Lonny is talking about some Borland product.  From what I
understood I think he needs that index entry.

BTW, you remember our `dropping PureC' discussion?  If I manage to write
that conversion tool, would it be an option to convert the MiNTLib instead
of keeping native support?  That would be at the prize of a performance
penalty caused by the different calling conventions but I think that this
will be weighed up by the generally better optimization job that gcc does
compared to PureC.

Ciao

Guido
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