On Wed, 2019-12-11 at 00:25 +0000, David Griffith via cctalk wrote: > I'm trying to convert some C code[1] so it'll compile on TOPS20 with KCC. > KCC is mostly ANSI compliant, but it needs to use the TOPS20 linker, which > has a limit of six case-insentive characters. [...] Does anyone here have > any knowledge of existing tools or techniques to do what I'm trying to do?
Is "objcopy --redefine-syms" any help? Compile the code as-is to produce object files, use nm or objdump to find all of the global symbols, generate unique six-character names for them, and then use objcopy to create new object files with the new names. Or have I completely missed the point? I'm not familiar with KCC, does it produce object modules in a format objcopy doesn't support? I know someone who was working on gcc support for the PDP-10, I wonder if he's still doing that or has given up....
