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Re: old BEG Backend Generator for modern Linux?

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From George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
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Subject Re: old BEG Backend Generator for modern Linux?
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 21:20:41 -0700 (PDT), maximilian.spring@gmail.com
wrote:

>I still have is in an old a.out format, and I have been unsuccessful
>so far to get it to run on a modern Linux.

You might try using objcopy (GNU binutils) to convert to ELF.

Disclaimers: 1) I've never tried it so I can't tell you how,  and 2)
there are multiple "a.out" formats - depending on what compiler
produced it, there's no guarantee the file even will be recognized.

George

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old BEG Backend Generator for modern Linux? maximilian.spring@gmail.com - 2015-07-30 21:20 -0700
  Re: old BEG Backend Generator for modern Linux? George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2015-08-02 16:36 -0400
    Re: old BEG Backend Generator for modern Linux? Nemo <nemo@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-04 13:10 -0400
  Re: old BEG Backend Generator for modern Linux? Louis Krupp <lkrupp@nospam.pssw.com.invalid> - 2015-08-02 14:44 -0600
  Re: old BEG Backend Generator for modern Linux? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-08-04 09:32 +0000

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