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Re: libiberty and m68k-coff?


> I really don't need PIC code, as I'm running on an embedded system.  The
> original reason (so I've been told) for doing a5-relative stuff was
> because PIC was needed for a monitor which never got written.  (Is PIC a
> necessity for BDM?)
> 
I'm using plain old m68k-coff on an embedded 68332 system and gdb-4.17 with
BDM patch and ddd for a very slick downloading and debugging interface all
hosted under slackware linux 3.6, the gdb-4.17-bdm is only tested to work with coff.
 
> Perhaps I should just try moving things over to ELF?
> 
> [1] ~44k lines of assembly, ~20k lines of C
> [2] originally under Xenix...
> [3] the fellow I'm working with on this project tried doing that a while
>     back, and failed.
> [4] I'm still having to go through a heck of a lot of assembly code
>     by hand due to the strange sierra assembly preprocessor, and perhaps
>     going through and scrubbing the a5 references from the assembly
>     might be feasable.
> 
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>    at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise
>    the programs they write will be pretty weird."   --   Donald Knuth
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