> On Feb 23, 2019, at 6:16 PM, Fritz Mueller via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I've been thinking it might be nice to have an LDA BFD backend for gnu
> binutils, so gas, ld, objdump etc. could deal with LDA's directly without
> having to use separate conversion utilities.
>
> Before jumping in on that, though, I thought I'd ask here to see if anybody
> might have already started or done this? I've noticed several of the folks
> here also have contributions on some of the binutils lists.
>
> thanks,
> --FritzM.
What LDA do you have in mind? Absolute loader binary, for bare metal
execution? DOS-11 binary? :-) Part of the issue is that there are a number
of different executable forats for PDP-11 -- RSX TSK files (possibly several,
if -D and -M differ which I don't know, SAV for RT-11 (and also REL), not to
mention the variant wrapper RSTS uses (SIL).
paul
