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Hi all,
after some work I managed to compile g21k (a gcc port for ADSP21k
architecture) and I used it to cross-compile the whole ADI C-runtime
library (ref. <news:9gj66aFvuvU1@mid.individual.net>)

So now I have the following pieces:

- g21k     (compiler)
- asm21k   (assembler)
- ld21k    (linker)
- mem21k   (memory initializer)
- cdump21k (a coff dump utility)

After I compiled the C-runtime library I naively thought to use ar to
make an archive - that I called libc.a - but unfortunately when I link
against it from my application, it looks like the linker does not find a
symbol directory and I get the following errors:

> Archive symbol directory is missing from archive /usr/local/21k/lib/libc.a
> Archive symbol directory in archive /usr/local/21k/lib/libc.a is too large
> Can't read archive symbol directory of archive /usr/local/21k/lib/libc.a

It looks like the archiver failed to create a symbol directory (indeed
nm does not recognize the object format, since i believe the coff
produced by the linker is not supported by gnu binutils).

It is somehow frustrating since I'm only missing a very small part of
the whole and it will be a shame, after so much effort, to give up.
Unfortunately the author of the port seems does not reply to emails,
while the mailing list seems somehow defunct. Alternative efforts to
find people who previously worked with this tool have not been fruitful
(understandable to some extent, since we are talking about a 20 y.o. tool!).

If anyone out there has any solution/suggestion/advice I would really
appreciate.

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g21k and ar Alessandro Basili <alessandro.basili@cern.ch> - 2011-11-24 09:18 +0100
  Re: g21k and ar - COFF DSP21K filetype Alessandro Basili <alessandro.basili@cern.ch> - 2011-11-24 13:40 +0100
    Re: g21k and ar - COFF DSP21K filetype Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2011-11-24 15:54 +0200
      Re: g21k and ar - COFF DSP21K filetype Alessandro Basili <alessandro.basili@cern.ch> - 2011-11-24 15:41 +0100
        Re: g21k and ar - COFF DSP21K filetype Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2011-11-24 21:02 +0200
          Re: g21k and ar - COFF DSP21K filetype Alessandro Basili <alessandro.basili@cern.ch> - 2011-11-25 09:48 +0100

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