From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject: Re: Flexible Linking for GCC?
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:19:51 +0100
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Eric Lange wrote:
[...]
> >
> > Why would you want to do this? Only real reason I can think of for replacing
> > the DJGPP startup code is so one could load some kind of virus-infested
> > startup code in it's place.....
> 
>   I take some offense to that remark.  I can think of several reasons why
> someone would want to do that.  In my case, I am developing a hardware
> virtualizer for DOS to allow devices to be emulated in software.  You may not be
> aware, but this is not an easy task in an operating system that gives free reign
> to the application.  I have developed most of the core code, but I need some way
> to develop (and allow others to develop) driver code, and I don't want to force
> them to use assembly language.  I have my own loader, I just need some way to
> package the code in some other format than an .EXE.
> 
> So there.  Does anybody (else) have any ideas?
Not really. I guess it is possible, look at the
specs file and djgpp.djl. You also might have to change something
in the BFD of ld, I am not sure about that. What you will
definitely need is to convince MASM to produce COFF output. 
For changing the startup code, I think Bill Currie has written
a bootstrap loader for djgpp programs, to boot an OS that
is based on DJGPP. Though this is not what you want, I guess 
you can steal some good ideas from him ;-)
Check the news archive on www.djgpp.com,  and I think
I have seen it on the djgpp/v2tk subdirectory.
HTH

-- 
Ciao
Tom

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