Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!mucs!cns!umaida!rn From: rn@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (bob nutter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: GNU s/w Message-ID: <1990Nov8.170811@ap.co.umist.ac.uk> Date: 8 Nov 90 17:08:11 GMT References: Sender: usenet@cns.umist.ac.uk (News System) Reply-To: rn@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (bob nutter) Organization: UMIST Computation, Manchester, UK. Lines: 21 In article , gjh@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins) writes: |> the coff patches for gas 1.37. Does anyone know whether it's worth trying |> |> 1. The port of gas 1.37? |> |> 2. Applying the coff patches? |> |> Is coff likely to be applicable to the ST architecture? -Nope, COFF is just the (common) object file format found on some UNIX systems (eg: Apollo Domain/OS, Sun 386i at 4.0.x) which meant that debuggers couldn't be used (except at assembly level :-) on gcc/g++ objects... bob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- bob nutter, computer officer | UMIST dept of computation | "when father papered the parlour, po box 88 manchester m60 1qd uk | you couldn't see him for paste..." tel:+44 61 200 3386 | email:b.nutter@umist.ac.uk |