Re: converter from COFF to IEEE

Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
8 May 1997 00:59:40 -0400

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From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 8 May 1997 00:59:40 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 97-04-170
Keywords: linker

In comp.compilers andreas_borer@compuserve.com writes:


>Using an older realtime operating system we have the need to convert
>COFF data to IEEE format for use on a 68000 emulator.


>Does anyone know how to get such a converter an how reliable converters
>of this kind are?


The GNU binutils package includes the objcopy program, which can
convert fully linked m68k COFF files to IEEE-695, including converting
all the debugging information. Do something like
        objcopy -O ieee --debugging COFF IEEE


The convertor seems to work well when converting stabs debugging
information, as generated by gcc when configured with --with-stabs. I
don't think it's been tested much with standard COFF debugging
information, but the code is there and it ought to work.


Ian Taylor
ian@cygnus.com
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