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Re: [MiNT] obsolete aout binutils?

Le Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:46:15 +0200
Zorro <zorro270@yahoo.fr> a écrit:

I would put it in that order:

> - Someone does he work on the binutils?

Maybe a simple bug in relocation stuff, or something binutils
maintainers did not bother to test, as main targets don't use a.out
format.

> - Someone does he work on a decent GCC port ( with working C++
> compiler)?

First, we could run the 'make bootstrap' and the various g++ testsuite
that comes with gcc to check what is broken or not (big hard disk space
needed, and cpu hours). I think we should use a real atari for this,
because an emulator could have a cpu/fpu emulation bug.

> - Someone does he work on the shareable libraries?

Maybe it should be possible to load/relocate .a library files (guido,
frank?). The problem is that .a files don't have versioning (i.e. like
so library name on linux).

> - Someone does he work on the virtual memory support?

The problem with sharing libraries, is that once a shared lib is
loaded/relocated, all program that use it must access it through the
same virtual address. Or the library should be made position
independant.

-- 
Patrice Mandin
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Programmeur Linux, Atari
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