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Re: bfd_get_relocated_section_contents on hppa and ia64

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: Camm Maguire <camm at maguirefamily dot org>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org, gcl-devel at gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:45:28 +0100
Subject: Re: bfd_get_relocated_section_contents on hppa and ia64
References: <E1NaaJq-0006Ia-OP@localhost.m.enhanced.com> <4B62BD4E.50208@redhat.com> <871vh4lg2m.fsf@maguirefamily.org> <4B67F17B.5080703@redhat.com> <87eiiim2ux.fsf@maguirefamily.org>

Hi Camm,

To your knowledge, are there
any current platforms supporting open source software besides Windows
and Mac OSX which *do not* use elf?

Sure - VAX (which uses VMS), various embedded OS which often use AOUT or PE formats. HP machines use the SOM format. I am sure that there are others as well.

But it would appear the the many other non-elf bfd-supported
target formats are defacto legacy at present.  True?

Yes. Well yes-ish. ELF is the format of the future (IMHO) but these legacy environments are going to be around for a long time to come.

Cheers
  Nick

References:
- Re: bfd_get_relocated_section_contents on hppa and ia64
  - From: Camm Maguire

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