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Merge armelf.em, armelf_oabi.em and hppaelf.em with elf32.em?

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Sun Jul 23 09:09:00 GMT 2000 
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 06:07:40PM +1000, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, H . J . Lu wrote:
> 
> > I have added the new dtags support to elf32.em. But I don't know
> > enough to modify armelf.em, armelf_oabi.em and hppaelf.em. Also
> > I'd like to merge them with elf32.em. I can help on elf32.em. But
> > I need someone to tell me what the differences between armelf.em,
> > armelf_oabi.em, hppaelf.em and elf32.em.
> 
> I've been working on hppaelf.em, (not checked into sourceware yet) and
> it's basically turned into elf32.em + some extra routines.  Actually, I'd
> like to play with the script generation stuff a little as we could easily
> use
>    elf32.em
>  - elf32.em struct ld_emulation_xfer_struct
>  + hppaelf.em extra routines
>  + hppaelf.em struct ld_emulation_xfer_struct. 

And

  + armelf.em extra
  + armelf_oabi.em extra
> 
> If we do this, then changes like the ones you're doing for dtags would
> automatically be included for all the variations on the common elf32.em
> theme.
> 

elf32.em supports extra options in elf32mcore. It should be doable for
extra in hppaelf.em, armelf.em and armelf_oabi.em.


H.J.
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