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Re: Adding MIPS support to GOLD
On Mar 25, 2008, at 10:22 AM, David Daney wrote:
I was thinking about looking at MIPS support, however I think it may
be a bit complicated. The Multi-GOT support is something that does
not exist for x86, so it would be completely new. The rest (having
not looked at the gold source code yet), I think would be mostly
straight forward.
I consider myself a fairly expert programmer, but not in the area of
language tools, and sadly it gets harder for me when looking at
something like GCC and binutils (I'm really a Mac programmer, using
the traditional Mac APIs). Is there someplace I can learn about the
GOT, why multi-GOT exists for MIPS and not for x86, how it's used, etc.?
(If you give me a specific task in binutils, I can probably help. If
you tell me to design something, I need to learn more about the
problem domain.)
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Rick