From: "William J. Earl" <wje@fir.engr.sgi.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@cobaltmicro.com>
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: IRIX ELF docs
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 16:42:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199709302342.QAA14355@fir.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199709302336.QAA22417@dns.cobaltmicro.com>
Ralf Baechle writes:
> Hi all,
>
> our current linker is producing IRIX flavored ELF binaries, not MIPS
> ABI. We still seem to have some bugs in the dynamic linker and these
> are now pretty close to the top on my to do list. However I've got
> not documentation about the IRIX binary format, so I'm pretty much
> relying on reverse engineering for fixing them. Does anybody have
> a pointer to documentation or documentation about IRIX ELF flavoured
> o32 bit object file format?
IRIX ELF O32 (dynamic) object files are MIPS ABI object files.
There are optional extra sections, to support features such as "quickstart"
(which allows RLD to skip some of the fixups at startup time), but the
required parts are as defined by the MIPS ABI.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-09-30 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-30 23:36 IRIX ELF docs Ralf Baechle
1997-09-30 23:42 ` William J. Earl [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-06-13 14:55 gcc for Irix Miguel de Icaza
1997-06-13 16:54 ` William J. Earl
1997-06-13 17:50 ` Ariel Faigon
1997-06-13 17:50 ` Ariel Faigon
1997-06-13 20:37 ` William J. Earl
1997-06-13 20:37 ` William J. Earl
[not found] ` <wje@fir.engr.sgi.com>
1997-06-14 15:39 ` Christopher W. Carlson
1997-06-14 17:21 ` Ariel Faigon
1997-06-14 17:21 ` Ariel Faigon
1997-06-14 17:35 ` David S. Miller
1997-06-16 8:02 ` Martin Knoblauch
1997-06-16 11:42 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-06-16 11:42 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-10-01 15:56 ` IRIX ELF docs Christopher W. Carlson
1997-10-01 17:20 ` Ariel Faigon
1997-10-01 17:20 ` Ariel Faigon
1997-10-01 23:28 ` Ralf Baechle
1997-10-02 9:38 ` Martin Knoblauch
1997-06-16 7:30 ` gcc for Irix Martin Knoblauch
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