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From: rich@oxtrap (K. Richard Magill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Who has the COFF support code for gcc/g++/gdb?  HELP ME PLEASE!
Keywords: coff, c++, g++, gcc, gdb, 32000
Message-ID: <3897@oxtrap.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 88 20:01:55 GMT
References: <5169@nsc.nsc.com>
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Reply-To: rich@oxtrap (K. Richard Magill)
Organization: Ocwen - Ann Arbor
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In-reply-to: rfg@nsc.nsc.com (Ron Guilmette)

In article <5169@nsc.nsc.com>, rfg@nsc (Ron Guilmette) writes:
>The software which I am desperately seeking is alternate code for gcc/g++/gdb
>which enable these tools to support & use COFF format binaries.  I specifically
>need COFF support for the NS32000 series processors.

Doesn't exist.  (to my knowledge and certainly not in a "public" form). gcc is
running on several machines, including multimax, that use coff, but in these
configurations the compiler produces native assembler and thus no gdb support.
(although there appears to be gdb support specific to the multimax).

There was a lot of talk about this recently in the gnu mailing lists and the
bottom line seems to be that the best approach is for gnu ld to produce, on
demand, bsd objects in a COFF wrapper.  To my knowledge, neither this, nor the
COFF to COFF'd bsd translator that would be needed for system libraries, has
been done.

rich.
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