Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!ira.uka.de!smurf!urlichs From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Subject: Re: MacApp->C++->A/UX Message-ID: Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 05:09:56 Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG References: <3151@skivs.UUCP> <51729@apple.Apple.COM> Lines: 158 In comp.unix.aux, article <51729@apple.Apple.COM>, ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik) writes: < < Hmm, a better question would be "Are there any plans to support COFF < format from the MPW environment?" It's possible to convert COFF to MPW. The main problem is that due to the nonrelocatability of COFF code, if you want to link COFF stuff you have to put everything in data space (i.e. A5-relative). This includes the executable code. If you want to convert /lib/libc.a, you'll have to split it into its constituent object files first. Converter script follows. (Warning: It's written in perl.) After conversion, you'll have to say "setfile -t 'OBJ ' name". The converter is able to prefix external names with some standard symbol so you can avoid naming conflicts. Is there any good way to feed object code back into the assembler? Dumpobj isn't very good at producing reasemblable output. Maybe an additional option for dumpobj is in order here; it would certainly simplify things. 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