Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2011/06/30/16:33:43
> (Note to DJ: I know you're probably VERY busy, and I think even an
> email or two to you bounced recently, ugh. So feel free to ignore
> this. And yes I see your online compiler thingy hack is offline too,
> heh.)
Yeah, I upgraded delorie.com and a few things stopped working. I need
to build a newer compiler anyway, I think that one is still gcc 2.7 !
> Is this worth giving to BinUtils maintainers? (Apparently DJ is
> one!) Doubt it, but ... I already emailed the VMS dude (Tristan),
> and he seemed (very unsurprisingly) nonchalant. So whatever, perhaps
> somebody here can convince them if anybody agrees with me (doubt
> it).
Yeah, it would be up to the VMS maintainer, not me. They get to
decide the destiny of their platforms ;-)
> around that. What I *can't* fix is it saying a spurious error message
> about "undefined symbol L0 not found". Only DJ himself (or somebody
> smarter than I am) could possibly decipher it. It's a new "change",
> and I'm not sure why!
I bet it's L0<ctrl-A><something :-)
> 4). Last I checked, --gc-sections didn't work for COFF at all.
> Apparently the COFF backend maintainer is ... DJ himself! But I know
COFF is a dumb container compared to ELF.
> he's always busy working. So I don't pester him much. Anyways,
> somebody at SourceWare (?) did add a rough patch (for 2.20) to add
> such support for MS / PE COFF recently. I didn't try it, but perhaps
> somebody here is more adventurous.
PE is *not* COFF, it's just similar to COFF. It's pretty much its own
backend by now :-P
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