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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Possible?: statically converting i386 ELF object
	files to ARM ELF object files
From: Bob Deblier <bob.deblier@telenet.be>
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On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 17:10 +0800, Sebastian Nowozin wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> (please quote my email address on a reply to this email, I am not member 
> of the list, thanks.)
> 
> I have wondered wether the code conversion ability of qemu could be 
> utilized to convert ELF .o object files compiled for i386 Linux by GCC 
> to .o object files for ARM/Linux.  Is this possible or has something 
> been attempted in this direction?
> 
> The need for such conversion occurs when porting the Java MIDP to ARM. 
> Due to export restrictions, for some cryptography code in the MIDP, only 
> linkable object files for i386 are available with the sources.  (Half a 
> dozen small object files, clearly named like MD2.o MD5.o SHA1.o, ...).

Wouldn't it be easier to write your own crypto functions conform to the
API used by the platform? All the algorithms you mention above are well
documented.

Sincerely,

Bob Deblier