Subject: Re: Status of ELF for sh3?
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-sh3
Date: 01/26/2001 20:25:28
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 01:15:44PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> >: What's the status of switing to ELF for the NetBSD sh3 ports?
> >
> >Part of the problem is that currently, sh3 ELF is using symbols *WITHOUT*
> >underscores. Unless it's explicitly contradicted in the Super-H supplement
> >to the ELF ABI, this needs to be changed (and "damn other vendors"--this is
> >the MI ELF *standard*).
>
> if my understanding is correct,
> - some of Hitachi ICE and other debugging tools are using symbols
> without underscores
> - gcc/binutils is synchronized to the above
> so if we add underscores, we cannot use those debugging tools.
> msaitoh should have more details...
Uh, let's be clear -- ELF does NOT have leading underscores on C symbols
on just about every platform. So, if it already does not have underscores,
then we're okay! It's if it DOES use underscores when we have the problem.
--
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>