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From: Hanzac Chen <hanzac@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Test GRUB2 compiled by MingW
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 06:51:56 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <424DD08C.1090704@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504011951.32741.okuji@enbug.org>

Hi,

Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Friday 01 April 2005 06:49 pm, Marco Gerards wrote:
> 
>>This is not normal.  Perhaps there is still a problem with the
>>compiler or linker or so.  MingW is just a modified gcc, right?
> 
> 
> I think this is normal. IIRC, Windows does not use ELF, while GRUB 2 depends 
> on ELF.

Yes, MingW generates COFF and if using COFF, the GCC/binutils can't use
some of GAS's directive, like section switch. (I found GRUB using that
in its module loading mechanism.)

Maybe I still don't understand it well.

How much else does GRUB 2 depend on ELF?

BYE,
Hanzac



  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-01 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-01  7:03 Test GRUB2 compiled by MingW Hanzac Chen
2005-04-01 16:49 ` Marco Gerards
2005-04-01 17:51   ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-04-01 22:51     ` Hanzac Chen [this message]
2005-04-02 11:24       ` Marco Gerards
2005-04-01 23:19   ` Hanzac Chen

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