On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:50:05PM -0500, Joel Salomon said:
> On 2/13/06, Latchesar Ionkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You want to use GNU binutils? It would be very hard to make GNU binutils to
> > support Plan9 object file format. The options are to use ?c/?l/acid and lose
> > the GNU binutils features, or to use some object format supported by GNU
> > binutils and compile everything (even the kernel ;) with gcc and gnu
> > binutils.
>
> Why would that be? Don't ?l use (a variant of) the a.out format?
IIRC ?l produces executable that is a.out variant, but the input object
files are very different than the .o files binutils support. Plan9 object
files are binary encoded assembler instructions.
Lucho
