------- Comment #14 from ro at techfak dot uni-bielefeld dot de 2009-10-09
13:24 -------
Subject: Re: plugin-api.h unconditionally includes stdint.h
> ------- Comment #12 from joseph at codesourcery dot com 2009-10-09 12:58
> -------
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> > That would be no problem since AFAIK gold only supports ELF targets by
> > design, and Tru64 UNIX uses ECOFF. Not even GNU ld supports that anymore
> > (or the support has bitrotten to the point of being unusable).
>
> gold supports non-ELF hosts (or will once Andrew Pinski's MinGW host
> patches are in), and in due course should support plugins on such hosts.
Ok, but only as a cross-linker to ELF targets, I suppose?
> (I've no idea whether Tru64 has a dynamic loading interface making plugins
> on such a host possible at all, but if it has such an interface there is
> no reason in principle against someone adding support for plugins for a
> cross compiler and linker from Tru64 to an ELF target.)
Tru64 UNIX supports dlopen(3), so you should be set.
Rainer
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