Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 18:27:22 JST +0900
From: hideki AT isl DOT rdc DOT toshiba DOT co DOT jp (Hideki Yoshida)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: cross compilation for DJ1.0x

 >   From: Alvin Starr <alvin AT eyepoint DOT on DOT ca>
 >   Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:54:08 -0400
 >   X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]

 >   > You can find the latest versions of the binutils at
 >   > 	cygnus.com:/pub
 >   > 	alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu (128.52.46.26)
 >   > 
 >   > Regards,
 >   > Rami El Charif
 >
 >   The following is an linkage control file that I have been using
 >   OUTPUT_FORMAT("a.out-i386")
 >   OUTPUT_ARCH(i386)
 >   ENTRY(start)
 >   SEARCH_DIR(../lib/sunlib)
 >   SECTIONS
 >	   {
 >	   .text 0x1020 :
 >		   {
 >			   CREATE_OBJECT_SYMBOLS
 >			   *(.text)
 >			   _etext  =  ALIGN(0x1000);
 >		   }
 >	   .data ALIGN(0x400000) :
 >		   {
 >			   *(.data)
 >			   CONSTRUCTORS
 >			   _edata  =  .;
 >		   }
 >	   .bss SIZEOF(.data) + ADDR(.data) :
 >		   {
 >			   *(.bss)
 >			   [COMMON]
 >			   _end = .;
 >		   }
 >	   }
 >   this seems to work but the size of the text segment is 0x20 bytes
 >   larger than what is genrated by the loader under dos. To get around 
 >   this problem I have pached go32, but this is not the result that
 >   I want in the long run.

I got binutils-920602.tar.Z at cygnus.com, and found a linkage control
file called `go32.sh'.  Its format is more abstract than a.out-i386
above.  However, this file does not seem to produce correct a.out file
for go32 --- text does not start at 0x20.  Is this a bug?
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						YOSHIDA Hideki
						Information Systems Lab.
						Toshiba R&D Center
						hideki AT isl DOT rdc DOT toshiba DOT co DOT jp