I set aside my Thanksgiving vacation to work on FatELF (fitting for the
season?), and I have haiku_loader, kernel, and runtime_loader changes ready for
review. This was a great introduction to the Haiku code base, and I hope my
code will measure up to the existing level of quality. While I made every
effort to conform to style standards, while also remaining consistent with
surrounding style, I'm sure I might have missed something. If so, I apologize,
and I'll be happy to clean it up.
With these changes, one can load/execute multi-architecture kernels,
kernel-addons, and userspace executables and libraries. For example:
~> ~/fatelf-haiku/fatelf-glue hello hello-i386 hello-x86-64
~> ./hello
Hello, World!\n
This only encompasses the OS work necessary to execute fat binaries. I plan to
tackle next:
- Developer tools, including gcc and gdb. My goal is that one can run
simply run:
gcc -arch x86 -arch x86_64 -arch x86-gcc2 hello.c -o hello
- A combined x86-64/x86/(x86-gcc2) distribution.
The latter goal is a large one, and will also involve implementing 32-bit
syscall compatibility in the x86-64 port, unless someone else beats me to it.
