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Re: Support for sh-symbian-elf target

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: Ben Elliston <bje at au dot ibm dot com>
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:15:18 +0100
Subject: Re: Support for sh-symbian-elf target
References: <m3eknp2hlu.fsf@redhat.com> <877jtg1jpa.fsf@au.ibm.com>

Hi Ben,

One question:

If the port is to Symbian OS, why does "symbian" appear in the
manufacturer field of the configure triplet and not the OS field
(eg. sh-unknown-symbian)?

Because - get this - their OS supports both COFF and ELF binaries and they wanted to be able to distinguish between toolchains that generated code for a particular file format. I supposed that strictly speaking the configuration triplet should have been "sh-unknown-symbianelf" or "sh-unknown-symbiancoff" but that was rather clumsy and also implies that they are using a somehow non-standard version of ELF or COFF, when in fact they are using perfectly normal versions.

Cheers
  Nick

Follow-Ups:
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References:
- Support for sh-symbian-elf target
  - From: Nick Clifton
- Re: Support for sh-symbian-elf target
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