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RE: problems using "objcopy"
- To: 'Ilan Kirschenbaum' <ikirschenbaum at bamboomc dot com>, "'gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org'" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Subject: RE: problems using "objcopy"
- From: David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:24:07 -0000
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ilan Kirschenbaum [mailto:ikirschenbaum@bamboomc.com]
>Sent: 19 March 2001 14:00
>we are trying to use PGCC (some dialect of gcc for Pentium)
>to compile .c files containing MMX instructions.
>however, the generated .o file can not be linked and/or loaded
>by the linker and the loader of vxWorks 5.4.
>
>I am currently trying to understand the format of the a.out-i386
>file and can't find documentation about it.
>I found few docs on the internet but there are, apparently,
>few dialects of this format.
>
>we use the PGCC and the objcopy utility that supllied by DJGPP,
>however, as I mentioned, the generated file makes trubles when
>loaded by the vxWorks 5.4 loader.
>
>the command line I use is :
>objcopy -O a.out-i386 -v foo.o
I don't know much about the pentium, but I have some experience with
VxWorks and its loader, so my first question is: what trouble do you
get when you try and load it?
And my second question is: have you heard of the comp.os.vxworks
newsgroup? There are lots more vxworks experts there.
DaveK
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