[ros-kernel] Re: RE: Re: Gcc and binutils release

[Eric K. <ek...@rz...>]

Brian Palmer <br...@sg...> wrote:


> Right now FreeLoader is fully gcc+binutils compliant and will build under
> most x86 gcc dists. It uses AT&T assembly. The real problem with MingW is
> that it cannot assemble 16-bit code. Every time I use the .code16
directive
> it complains that it cannot represent reloc type BFD_RELOC_16. For some
> reason they have the 16-bit code support compiled out of MingW. AFAIK this
> is the only pending issue that is keeping FreeLoader from compiling.
>
I have just built freeldr.sys (not the bootsectors) using MinGW. I had to
modify multiboot.c and tui.c to avoid calls to alloca(). The calls to
alloca() are generated by MinGW but not by djgpp. After using objcopy
(according to Robert Collins) I got a binary freeldr.sys. At least it is
*not* a pe-file.

- Eric Kohl



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