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- The GAS Configuration Plan
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- Theory:
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- The goal of the new configuration scheme is to bury all object format
- and target processor dependancies in object and target specific files.
- That is, to move all #ifdef's out of the gas common code.
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- Here's how it works. There is a .h and a .c file for each object file
- format and a .h and a .c file for each target processor. The
- configure script creates symlinks in the current directory to the
- appropriate files in the config directory. configure also serves as a
- list of triplets {host, target, object-format} that have been tested
- at one time or another. I also recommend that configure be used to
- document triplet specific notes as to purpose of the triplet, etc.
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- Implementation:
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- obj-format.h is a {sym}link to .../config/obj-something.h. It is intended
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- All gas .c files include as.h.
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- as.h #define's "gas", includes host.h, defines a number of gas
- specific structures and types, and then includes tp.h, obj.h, and
- target-environment.h.
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- target-environment.h defines a target environment specific
- preprocessor flag, eg, TE_SUN, and then includes obj-format.h.
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- obj-format.h defines an object format specific preprocessor flag, eg,
- OBJ_AOUT, OBJ_BOUT, OBJ_COFF, includes "target-processor.h", and then
- defines the object specific macros, functions, types, and structures.
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- target-processor.h
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- target-processor.
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- Porting:
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- There appear to be four major types of ports; new hosts, new target
- processors, new object file formats, and new target environments.
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