Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/12/08/05:42:59
On Wed, 7 Dec 1994, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> Well, as AT&T format is the definite standard for assembler sources on
> U*X, and, AFAIK, the only one known to gcc and gas, I'm close to
> absolutely sure that DJGPP will use AT&T format *forever*.
The point was made that currently MASM will assemble 32-bit code into
COFF objects, which can be linked by ld along with gcc produced code to
create a GO32 executable... This is how several people are getting 'out'
of not having to learn AT&T op code formatting (which IMHO is a waist,
since MASM and TASM use "Intel" formatting, native *only* to x86).
Someone mentioned an object format convertor. Is there such a beast
that will take MASM COFF objects and convert them to ELF for linking?
objcopy maybe? This would eliminate a major point in the oposition for
the change.
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