Rafael Espindola writes:
> > I suppose you mis-parsed my question: Solaris and IRIX *are* ELF targets
> > (just not Linux, so using the system linker, not GNU ld). If I understand
> > you correctly, they might just work (modulo bugs)?
>
> That should work. You still might need to extend the linker to
> support IL in static libraries. We can work with normal .o with the
> modified collect2 in the branch, but for archives we need linker
> support.
Ok, I see. Maybe we can extend Sun ld to handle that, given that the
sources are now open via OpenSolaris.
> > The only other target of interest to me is Tru64 UNIX, which uses ECOFF,
> > not ELF. I don't know if that format is extensible enough to store the IL,
> > but investigating that is low priority for me.
>
> I would suggest trying to use elf for the IL. For example, while
> using plugins gold doesn't care what the *input* file format is.
Unfortunately, gold doesn't even build on non-Linux targets: see PR
gold/7024.
Rainer
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