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Re: g21k and ar - COFF DSP21K filetype

From Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.dsp
Subject Re: g21k and ar - COFF DSP21K filetype
Date 2011-11-24 21:02 +0200
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On 24.11.11 4:41 , Alessandro Basili wrote:
> On 11/24/2011 2:54 PM, Tauno Voipio wrote:
>> On 24.11.11 2:40 , Alessandro Basili wrote:
>>> On 11/24/2011 9:18 AM, Alessandro Basili wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> 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).
> [...]
>>
>> If the binary utilities are based on the old GNU tools,
>> you should run the appropriate ranlib against the library
>> to create the symbol directory in it.
>>
>
> If the binary utilities you are referring to are the one for the g21k,
> than there's no archiver in the g21k-binutils.
> Only programs in the g21k-binutils are the following:
>
> a21000
> asm21k
> mem21k
> ld21k
> cdump
> coffdump
>
> If the binary utilities you are referring to are the one from GNU than
> my problem is that neither /ar -s/ nor /ranlib/ will create any symbol
> directory.

That's what is expected. ar is a part of the binutils package, and
it is target-specific. You cannot expect i386+ archiver to function
correctly with a foreign architecture.

 From where did you get the sources for the 21k binary utilities?

-- 

Tauno Voipio

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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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