Re: [S1mp3-devel] Re: New ideas for the kernel

[Jeroen D. <je...@sp...>]

On Fri, 12 May 2006, Legolas wrote:

> Bluechip ha scritto:
> As Sprite_tm said, we can use the standard object format, but there is a 
> problem: is an object file fixable at run-time so that it will be easily run 
> with minor fixes done by the linker?

As far as I've studied Z88DK (our z80/assembler-suite), that's possible: 
the linker does the linking to libs/other objs as well as the 
relocation/'fixing' thing.

> Now that I think again about it: a 
> linker has two places, a source and a destination, in our case they are the 
> same memory space, unless we are going to use two memory buffers, and this 
> would bring me back to the idea of the "customized compiler"...

We could do the linking and fixing when we read the files from the flash, 
imo. I don't think the usability suffers much if e.g. the loading of an 
ap takes e.g. half a second.

> --
> Legolas