Re: C++ Frontend and combining files

[Brendon Costa <bcosta at avdat dot com dot au>]

Mike Stump wrote:
> Hum, on second thought, why not just encode the information you want
> into the .o file.  Just put it into a special section, in whatever
> format you like, the linker will combine them, no additional files, .a
> files work, ld -r foo.o bar.o -o new.o works and so on.  You can then
> fish the information back out from the .o files or the executable as you
> want.
> 

That sounds like a great idea! I guess I need to start researching how
to embed data into .o files... Is looking at debug data generated by
the C++ front-end a good place to start?

I assume this can be done by adding certain directives to the
assembler source file (.s), since the assembler generates the .o files.

Anyhow, I will continue to look further into this and may get back
with more questions :-) later. Thanks for the idea.


Thanks,
Brendon.