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Re: ARM-ELF -> PE-COFF with objcopy

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 06:28:56PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Thanks, but no thanks.  CE runs on more platforms than just ARM.  It
> also runs on x86, MIPS and SH.   Why go through the trouble of
> writing an extra indirection layer when you can have the tools
> output the native format?  What about binary tool and link
> compatibility with the native tools?  Symbian avoids this last
> issue, because, well, they *are* the native tools.  Are you
> planning on making cygwin or i386-mingw use a post-linking
> process? ;-)

FWIW, it's been suggested several times :-)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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