Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: George Neuner Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: old BEG Backend Generator for modern Linux? Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 16:36:15 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <15-08-004@comp.compilers> References: <15-08-001@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1438666519 97904 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (4 Aug 2015 05:35:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 05:35:19 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: tools Posted-Date: 04 Aug 2015 01:35:19 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com X-Received-Bytes: 1476 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2090950849 Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1580 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