[Nasm-devel] RDOFF users?

[John Keubler]

I would be willing to maintain and fix rdf output but it may be over
my head.  Maybe it may be better to work on a omf linker that does the
same thing along with the same set of seperate programs for managing
the file format.

On 7/31/20, John Keubler <johnkeubler4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have used it for building my own operating system on Windows 10 not
> Linux.  Maybe we could replace it with another kind of linker.  It was
> kind of nice not having to use a cross linker from another project to
> build my operating system.
>
> On 7/30/20, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems RDOFF output has been broken since at least the early 2.14
>> series.  Fixing it without just papering over the problem will require
>> some significant effort, due to a lot of bad assumptions in the RDOFF
>> backend.
>>
>> Furthermore, the RDOFF format is really very limited. As such, I'm
>> strongly inclined to kill it off, and remove both the (broken, asserts
>> on invocation) RDOFF backend as well as the RDOFF tools from NASM.
>>
>> I would like to know if there are anyone out there who is actually using
>> them, and/or if anyone would be willing to maintain the RDOFF backend
>> and tools -- they have always been more of a nuisance than anything to
>> me.
>>
>> 	-hpa
>>
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