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From: george@iguanodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (George M. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Porting Gnu-LD
Keywords: launch code, linkers, you get the idea
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Date: 31 Jan 89 13:42:04 GMT
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In article <2816@nuchat.UUCP> abbadon@nuchat.UUCP (David Neal) writes:
>

>I'm trying to port the gnu 'c' compiler, and the lowest
>link (the linker) is the hardest.

If you mean porting it to run native on, say, a floppy based Amiga 1000
or 500 without extra memory the linker should be the easiest part.  The
sheer size of the sources will cause problems (1.32 is 2.4 meg compressed)
but more power to you if you succeed....

>
>I don't have any documentation on how to write an executable
>from scratch. What do executable file headers look like?

Try the Amiga DOS technical reference manual.

---George Jones
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