From:	Michael Castle <mcastle AT umr DOT edu>
Subject:	Re: Successful port of DLD?
To:	dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
Date:	Thu, 17 Feb 1994 17:50:29 -0600 (CST)
Cc:	turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> 
> > hand I doubt that they'd be in libc.a, because they are a C++
> > feature.  (But what do I know?)  Anyway, that's the place to start
> > looking.
> 
> Well, they used to be in libc.a.  As of 1.11, they don't exist -
> they're handled with special COFF sections and must be dealt with
> separately.
> 

*grin*  glad i guessed right... now i just wish i had thought of this back
when I was trying to port DLD.  

I *appears* to me now, that this may simplify changing DLD... as you just
have to teach it to know how to speak COFF.  I don't know if there are any
docs out there on the net or not.....  good luck...


Oh... I got bored the other night (when I should have been studying) and I
pulled some of the old djgpp list email archives off of sun.soe... 


I grepped the archive and found the following line:

I have now put the file dld323.zip onto ftp.math.niu.edu in



*beams proudly*  This file is still there in
/pub/msdos/djgpp.stuff/contrib


This is my port of dld 3.2.3... it also includes my notes that I made while
doing the port... and should (hopefully) be useful to anyone else who tries
to port the package.  

This site started out as being a sort of mirror for djgpp.. but fizzled
out... nothing has been moved out of contrib into working diretories for
over a year now.. *shrug*   mebbe if some kind soul wanted to take over the
job... the net would be appreciative...


Oh... btw... there is also a file on there (I think i put it there.. though
i'm now sure) called 'gasdoc.zip'..... This is an explantation of the unix
style assembler code that gas uses... .. some may find that useful  :->


cheers
mrc

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