Home Original page

Xbox support question

Aaron W. LaFramboise aaron98wiridge9@aaronwl.com
Mon Oct 11 00:16:00 GMT 2004 
Myria wrote:

> 1. Subsystem type is defaulted to 14 (IMAGE_SUBSYSTEM_XBOX in ~2002+ 
> Microsoft header winnt.h)
> 2. Default PE base address for subsystem xbox is 0x00020000.
> 3. Default entry point for subsystem xbox is mainCRTStartup.

I am not personally interested in Xbox programming.

However, since you'd need special build machinery in this case to do
conversion from PE to XBE anyway, is it really that much of a burden to
use the command line options that accomplish all of the above?  Also,
Filip Navara recently submitted some fixes towards fixing -pie on PE.

It seems a little odd to add Xbox support to binutils when such support
is only useful for complementing some other unspecified required Xbox tools.

Is it a lot of work to cause binutils to be able to handle XBE directly?
 Is XBE similar to any of the other object formats binutils uses?

Aaron W. LaFramboise
More information about the Binutils mailing list