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From: lehotsky@osf.org (Alan Lehotsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: COFF cross-linker little-endian vs. big-endian
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Date: 14 Jul 89 14:00:05 GMT
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I'm looking for a COFF linker that has been modified to work on
a little-endian machine and generate executable images for a big-endian
machine.  The particular "bindings" for little-end and big-end are
the DECstation 3100 and a Motorola 68030.

I've looked at the System V COFF linker and estimate that it'd be about
2 weeks worth of work to find all the places that reference WORD or LONG
fields of the COFF data structures and interpose appropriate byte-swapping
macros - anyone already done this work?