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Preliminary Notes on Porting BFD
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The 'host' is the system a tool runs *on*.
The 'target' is the system a tool runs *for*, i.e.
a tool can read/write the binaries of the target.
Porting to a new host
---------------------
Pick a name for your host. Call that <host>.
(<host> might be sun4, ...)
Create a file hosts/<host>.mh.
Porting to a new target
-----------------------
Pick a name for your target. Call that <target>.
Call the name for your CPU architecture <cpu>.
You need to create <target>.c and config/<target>.mt,
and add a case for it to a case statements in bfd/configure.host and
bfd/config.bfd, which associates each canonical host type with a BFD
host type (used as the base of the makefile fragment names), and to the
table in bfd/configure.in which associates each target vector with
the .o files it uses.
config/<target>.mt is a Makefile fragment.
The following is usually enough:
DEFAULT_VECTOR=<target>_vec
SELECT_ARCHITECTURES=bfd_<cpu>_arch
See the list of cpu types in archures.c, or "ls cpu-*.c".
If your architecture is new, you need to add it to the tables
in bfd/archures.c, opcodes/configure.in, and binutils/objdump.c.
For more information about .mt and .mh files, see config/README.
The file <target>.c is the hard part. It implements the
bfd_target <target>_vec, which includes pointers to
functions that do the actual <target>-specific methods.
Porting to a <target> that uses the a.out binary format
-------------------------------------------------------
In this case, the include file aout-target.h probaby does most
of what you need. The program gen-aout generates <target>.c for
you automatically for many a.out systems. Do:
make gen-aout
./gen-aout <target> > <target>.c
(This only works if you are building on the target ("native").
If you must make a cross-port from scratch, copy the most
similar existing file that includes aout-target.h, and fix what is wrong.)
Check the parameters in <target>.c, and fix anything that is wrong.
(Also let us know about it; perhaps we can improve gen-aout.c.)
TARGET_IS_BIG_ENDIAN_P
Should be defined if <target> is big-endian.
N_HEADER_IN_TEXT(x)
See discussion in ../include/aout/aout64.h.
BYTES_IN_WORD
Number of bytes per word. (Usually 4 but can be 8.)
ARCH
Number of bits per word. (Usually 32, but can be 64.)
ENTRY_CAN_BE_ZERO
Define if the extry point (start address of an
executable program) can be 0x0.
TEXT_START_ADDR
The address of the start of the text segemnt in
virtual memory. Normally, the same as the entry point.
TARGET_PAGE_SIZE
SEGMENT_SIZE
Usually, the same as the TARGET_PAGE_SIZE.
Alignment needed for the data segment.
TARGETNAME
The name of the target, for run-time lookups.
Usually "a.out-<target>"
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