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Re: Who maintains or makes fixes for ld for AIX?


Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:39:02PM -0600, Tom Rix wrote:
> > I have done some hacking to do a x86 linux-x- ppc aix binutils.   The only
> > big problem you will have is with bfd & core files.   The core routines are
> > very dependent on the aix system headers.   I spent a little time trying to
> > unravel the structures but it was a real pain and I moved on.
>
> Have you tried recently?  Might want to look again; all you should need
> to do is extract two or three constants (er... I think.  Does AIX use
> ELF core dumps?)

I'll check it out tomarrow.  From what I remember it was a couple of "simple"
macros but they depended on the process structure and that got hairy real
quick.   I think some work was done to set the core functions pointers to stubs
in cross configs  but have not varified.

No AIX is xcoff based.

An elf loader of AIX would be a cool hack.


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> Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
> MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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