seeking advice on porting binutils

[Alan Lehotsky]

I've been rummaging for any doc on re-targeting binutils to
a new processor.  About the best resource I've found so far
is to look at the 'diffs' that Michael Hayes has done for the
C4X port.

The machine I'm targeting is a high speed comms cpu, with no
existing tool chain.

After looking at this for a day or so, I'm leaning towards doing a
COFF toolchain rather than an ELF one.  I've got a lot more experience
with COFF (and my very own copy of the O'Reilly COFF book...) and it's
pretty straightforward to convert COFF into ROMABLE code.

Anybody got good arguments why this would be a bad idea.

Anybody seen a cookbook that spells out more of the details on the
guts of binutils?

-- Al Lehotsky