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Re: [ECOS] Re: CPU Ports for eCos

   Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:59:42 +0100
   From: jlarmour@cygnus.co.uk (Jonathan Larmour)

   >In the medium to long term, yes. Technically ELF is superior to older
   >object formats such as a.out and COFF, it makes it much easier to
   >implement facilities such as constructor priority ordering and
   >selective linking.

   Just to add my 2p, I believe it would be possible to get things to work
   with ECOFF too, but it would require similar modifications to gcc/gld that
   were made to the ELF support to support constructor priority ordering. I
   believe a.out and vanilla COFF would be as good as impossible to do though.

ECOFF can't support arbitrary sections.  ECOFF relocs only support a
limited number of sections.  Look for RELOC_SECTION in
include/coff/ecoff.h in a GNU binutils or gdb release.

Ian