From: kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Christoph Kukulies) Subject: Re: Mr Taylor surely understands ld: a correction to my previous post 28 Mar 1997 15:34:03 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: References: <009B1DC2 DOT DAD673A0 DOT 12808 AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Original-To: dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de Original-Cc: root AT jacob DOT remcomp DOT fr, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de X-Mailer: Mutt 0.58e In-Reply-To: <009B1DC2.DAD673A0.12808@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>; from dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de on Mar 26, 1997 23:06:52 +0100 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de writes: > Hi Jacob, you wrote: > > : Mr Taylor writes: > : > : > ...the linker is able to generate an object file > : > format which is different from the input file formats. For example, > : > this permits the linker to directly generate S-record output without > : > requiring a convertor. > > What is an S-record, please? e.g. Motorola S-Records. An ASCII readable format for downloading into embedded systems or EPROM burning. Intel had these :-records, I believe. First appeared in 1975. Someone taking part in a linker discussion oughta know what it is :-> > > : But WHY do we have to put the convertor and the linker in the SAME PROGRAM!!! > : In my view of things, it would be much better to have an easy to understand > : convertor to be used by systems programmers when they need S records, than > : to overload the linker with YET ANOTHER LEVEL OF COMPLEXITY!!! > > In the same program, they can't get out-of-sync, when it's updated. > And nowadays, only the needed stuff is paged in. > > > Bye, Heribert (dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de) > - > For help on using this list, send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku AT gil DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".