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Re: Building gas/ld to default to old-school A.OUT format

From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>
To: "David D. Hagood" <David dot Hagood at aeroflex dot com>
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: 10 Aug 2004 16:37:22 -0400
Subject: Re: Building gas/ld to default to old-school A.OUT format
References: <41191DCA.2020806@aeroflex.com> <m3zn527opm.fsf@gossamer.airs.com><41192C11.3090003@aeroflex.com>

"David D. Hagood" <David.Hagood@aeroflex.com> writes:

> On 08/10/2004 02:55 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > "David D. Hagood" <David.Hagood@aeroflex.com> writes:
> 
> > VxWorks switched to COFF ages ago.  Are you sure you still need a.out?
> >
> This is a pretty old version of VxWorks. I can confirm the Windows
> tools are creating OMAGIC (header 0407) files.
> > You neglected to say which processor you are using.  Have you tried
> > configuring for CPU-vxworks?
> 
> Yes, I've configured for i386-wrs-vxworks, with no luck.

I would recommend trying an old version of the binutils.  Take a look
at ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/old-releases.  Maybe something in
the 2.7 timeframe or thereabouts, but you'll have to see.

a.out is barely supported these days.

Ian

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