OSLib and ELF

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 3 Feb at 16:32 "David J. Ruck" <druck at druck.org.uk> wrote in message
<2cbf71af4e.druck at druck.freeuk.net>

> How much work would it be to generate an ELF version of OSLib as well as
> an ALF?
> 
> GCC 4.1.1 is on its way with support for the ELF toolchain, and Firefox2
> has already been built against it. To be useful in a wider context native
> SWI support via OSLib is pretty essential.
> 
I've really no idea, Dave, as I don't know the ELF format. I guess I need to
read up on precisely how different it is from ALF, and then make the
necessary changes to the build scripts. I suspect the former is the most
daunting, as I don't really know where to start. 

Learning ELF would probably be a useful project for me; does anyone have any
good links to its omplementayion, other than the rather heavy-going TIS
document? Google throws up some intriguing, though not entirely appropriate,
links :(

Regression testing the eventual ELF library may be another problem, as my
RISC PC is now a bit dicky, but I guess I can rely on you kind people out
there to do some testing :)

> I've added ELF executable and shared library format support to ARMalyser
> if thats any help.
> 
It may help; frankly I'm out of my depth here.

Cheers, Tony

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