[openbeos] Re: openbeos Digest V2 #2
- From: "Mikael J." <tic_khr@xxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:54:16 +0100
>
>> Not entirely true, as there was already talk (by GCC experts) about
>> recompiling everything with GCC, and creating a binary loader that
>> could handle the translation from GCC 2.x to GCC 3.x ABI :)
>
>Just out of curiousity, how difficult would it be to write a short app
>that pulls in an ELF file, reads the export/import tables, and
>translates them GCC 2 to GCC 3, then writes the corresponding ELF with
>the new ABI=3F Such a utility would be a lot more flexible than
modifying
>the loader.
>
Daniel Berlin, the GCC guru among us, once spoke up on the subject.
And he said: "Thee shalt not translate GCC 2 to GCC 3, fore it is too
much work".
*ahem*
The translate-thingy is appearently too much work to be feasible. Check
out the BeDevTalk (or was it BeCodeTalk) archives, search for stuff sent
from *d*@{redhat,cgsoftware}.com
--
Mikael J @ http://hem.spray.se/tic_khr
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