From: Robert Hoehne Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: a.out format and objcopy Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:47:18 +0100 Organization: TU Chemnitz-Zwickau Lines: 35 Message-ID: <329C1C36.133D@Mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> References: <329B8876 DOT 2AA3 AT pobox DOT oleane DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tantalus-e.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Francois Charton DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Francois Charton wrote: > > To me, this is a problem with the implementation of a.out in BFD... Or > did I do something wrong using objcopy? I think this is a problem in BFD. As I made the support for aout (betther: as I included the aout support in the DJGPP port), I made this simply by inluding the aout support files to the library. I have not any knowlage about that object format so I cannot say at this time anything about possible bugs in BFD. I made the aout support ONLY for the poeple, who use the povray program, which is currently (as far as I know) the only program for DJGPP which mixes two different object formats. After getting success with building povray by extracting the aout object files from the library and linking them explicit I will not spend more time for that old object format. If you realy need this feature, get the sources for binutils 2.7 and try to solve the problem by analizing the source files. But I think it would be a betther way, to see, if there is any other program to convert the .obj files direct to COFF format and NOT to aout. Robert -- ***************************************************************** * Robert Hoehne, Fakultaet fuer Mathematik, TU-Chemnitz-Zwickau * * Post: Am Berg 3, D-09573 Dittmannsdorf * * e-Mail: Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT TU-Chemnitz DOT DE * * WWW: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~rho * *****************************************************************