On Tuesday 27 November 2007 15:40, Andrew Pinski wrote: > On 11/27/07, Stephane Hockenhull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > no, it would not. > > because for one simple fact: COFF format lacks many features of ELF. > > What features are missing? COFF is not used for Windows 32 anyways, > it is PE-COFF. I am just wondering what exactly is missing that you > think you need to go this route. > > Thanks, > Andrew Pinski
we had some problem with some missing flags, like weak and others special attributes we use in some parts to provide extended features. but anyway, we have some special processing done where we need to be able to read the object files and we also use a custom dynamic linker so everything has to be in ELF format. BFD is really nice, but a bit too big to run on one of our platforms (3MB RAM embedded system) so we had to develop custom routines anyway and elf is easy enough to parse, so for KISS reasons those routines ends up on all platforms. I can't say much more. all I can say is going the all-ELF way right to the end really works nicely, *EXCEPT* for that std::string issue. -- Stephane Hockenhull SSC-Studios.com
