It's not hard to automatically copy-the .rel to a .o file for those rare times it actually is needed. I believe you will find the choice of .o is related to the 'traditional' naming of files created by the earliest Z80 assemblers and compilers on both dedicated OS's and CP/M.
Art ----Original Message----- From: Borut Razem <borut.ra...@siol.net> Reply-To: sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net To: Sdcc-Devel <sdcc-de...@lists.sourceforge.net>, Sdcc-User <sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Sdcc-user] Object file extension for Z80 and gb Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:07:53 +0100 The z80 and gb targets object file has been changed from .o to .rel. Borut Borut Razem wrote: > Hello sdcc developers and users, > > I'm thinking about changing the object file exetnsion for z80 and gb > targets from .o to .rel, which is used by all other targets. The > original asxxxx also uses .rel extensin for z80 an gb. I don't know > why it was changed from .rel to .o. I think it is a heritage from the > Gameboy Development Kit project. Probably Michael Hope can give us an > explanation. > > The reason of the proposed change is unification and re-merge with the > latest asxxxx version. > > I know that the change introduce backward compatibility problems, but > the next sdcc release will be "major" release: the major release > number will be changer from 2 to 3 (2.9 to 3.0), so maybe we can even > afford some backward incompatibilities... > > I expectation of your opinions, > Borut > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
