> On Feb 24, 2019, at 1:41 PM, Fritz Mueller via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
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>> On Feb 24, 2019, at 10:16 AM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> What LDA do you have in mind? Absolute loader binary, for bare metal
>> execution?
>
> I had in mind absolute loader binary for bare metal as a starting point.
That sounds straightforward.
> ...
> I am mostly interested in assembly development for my purposes, but it looks
> like others have been having pretty good luck with recent gcc on the
> pdp11-aout target as well.
For the purpose of running the execution tests in the gcc test suite I use a
small Python program to convert a.out to a bare metal load tape. It's a bit
clunky and it would be cleaner if bfd knew how to do this. So I'd have a use
for what you're proposing.
I probably wouldn't use it for assembly work, though; the gas assembler is too
strange for one trained on DEC tools.
paul
