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Looking to contribute OMF support

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Tue Mar 14 11:46:00 GMT 2006 
Hi Bernd,

> It seems my employer should be willing to assign copyright for the OMF
> support I've added using (in part) company time and equipment, to the
> FSF.  I'll need one of those pre-paperwork-preparation forms that I've
> seen around here regularly; would somebody please send me one of those?

Attached.

> I need to fill in a form for requesting the real form, right?

Right.

> Is it only the second set of forms which have to cross the ocean by
> snail-mail?

I think that the FSF might even use faxes....

> NOT working or untested:
>  - linking of more complex modules
>  - objcopy
>  - assembler output
> 
> I hope that's good enough for an otherwise nonexistent port? 

Yes.  Ideally however it would be nice if there was sufficient code to 
allow the port to be tested.  Ie supporting assembler output would 
really be a good idea.  If this is something that you are planning to 
add in the future then this is fine, but if not, then how can we, the 
binutils maintainers, tell if your code is still working ?  We test the 
code all the time and we try to make sure that it all works.  We also 
have a process whereby we retire unsupported and no-longer-working 
ports.  If we cannot test your port, how can we make sure that future 
changes to the generic parts of the binutils sources do not break the 
OMF port ?

Cheers
   Nick


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