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1991-04-04 18:19:56 +00:00
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1993-03-01 20:01:35 +00:00
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PORTING:
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1992-02-17 15:54:49 +00:00
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1993-03-01 20:01:35 +00:00
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Sorry, no description of the interfaces is written up yet. Look at
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existing back ends and work from there.
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New hosts: If your host system has a strange header file setup, create
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a config/ho-foo.h file for it and include the appropriate header files
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or definitions there. If your host has a broken compiler, or some
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broken macros in header files, create a host-specific file and repair
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the damage there. (See, for example, ho-rs6000.h. The "assert" macro
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on that system doesn't work right, and a flag is set to rewrite an
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expression in tc-m68k.c that the native compiler mis-compiles.)
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New target formats: Look at the BFD_ASSEMBLER code. The a.out code
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might be a fair example. There are no "good" examples yet,
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unfortunately.
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New target processors: Check first to see if the BFD_ASSEMBLER
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interface is supported by the file format code you need to use.
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New environments: ???
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DOCUMENTATION:
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The internals of gas need documenting.
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Roland's going to work on removing the m4 processing from the user
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documentation. With the latest texinfo code, it's not needed.
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Anyone want to offer to maintain a man page?
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BFD CONVERSION:
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The "#ifdef BFD_ASSEMBLER" code is on its way in; the "#ifndef
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BFD_ASSEMBLER" code is on its way out. The new code uses BFD data
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structures, and calls BFD for anything that needs to be written to the
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output file. The old code did all the writing itself, or in a couple
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of cases, used BFD as a slightly higher level than stdio (i.e.,
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bfd_seek, bfd_write -- these are not the preferred interface).
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Because of this, some of this code is messy. Lots of ifdef's, and the
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non-BFD_ASSEMBLER version often has multiple conditional tests inside
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it for various processors or formats. As the various targets get
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converted over, these will gradually go away.
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As of the moment I'm editing this file, only the "sun4" target can
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really use the BFD code. Other back ends still need merging or
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touching up.
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TO DO:
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Remove DONTDEF code, commented-out code.
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Eliminate, as much as possible, anything not in config that is
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conditionalized on a CPU, format, or environment.
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Finish conversion to using BFD for all object file writing. (This is
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the BFD_ASSEMBLER code, not BFD or BFD_HEADERS.) VMS might be the
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tough one here, since there's no BFD support for it at all yet.
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Eliminate the old code.
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Clean up comments; lots of 'em are one previous maintainer griping
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about another previous maintainer, unrelated to the code. (And with
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no names, they're not so fun to read. :-)
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Get Steve to document H8/500 stuff.
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(From old "NOTES" file to-do list, not really reviewed:)
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fix relocation types for i860, perhaps by adding a ref pointer to fixS?
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1992-02-18 10:23:18 +00:00
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1991-04-04 18:19:56 +00:00
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remove the ifdef's from fx_callj tests?
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1993-03-01 20:01:35 +00:00
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space tighten sparc alignment?
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1992-02-17 15:54:49 +00:00
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1993-03-01 20:01:35 +00:00
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md_ => tc_
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1991-04-04 18:19:56 +00:00
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1993-03-01 20:01:35 +00:00
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share b.out with a.out.
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