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Description
BFD supports a number of different flavours of a.out format,
though the major differences are only the sizes of the
structures on disk, and the shape of the relocation
information.
The support is split into a basic support file aoutx.h and other files which derive functions from the base. One derivation file is aoutf1.h (for a.out flavour 1), and adds to the basic a.out functions support for sun3, sun4, 386 and 29k a.out files, to create a target jump vector for a specific target.
This information is further split out into more specific files for each machine, including sunos.c for sun3 and sun4, newsos3.c for the Sony NEWS, and demo64.c for a demonstration of a 64 bit a.out format.
The base file aoutx.h defines general mechanisms for
reading and writing records to and from disk and various
other methods which BFD requires. It is included by
aout32.c and aout64.c to form the names
aout_32_swap_exec_header_in
, aout_64_swap_exec_header_in
, etc.
As an example, this is what goes on to make the back end for a sun4, from aout32.c:
#define ARCH_SIZE 32 #include "aoutx.h"
Which exports names:
... aout_32_canonicalize_reloc aout_32_find_nearest_line aout_32_get_lineno aout_32_get_reloc_upper_bound ...
from sunos.c:
#define TARGET_NAME "a.out-sunos-big" #define VECNAME sparc_aout_sunos_be_vec #include "aoutf1.h"
requires all the names from aout32.c, and produces the jump vector
sparc_aout_sunos_be_vec
The file host-aout.c is a special case. It is for a large set of hosts that use “more or less standard” a.out files, and for which cross-debugging is not interesting. It uses the standard 32-bit a.out support routines, but determines the file offsets and addresses of the text, data, and BSS sections, the machine architecture and machine type, and the entry point address, in a host-dependent manner. Once these values have been determined, generic code is used to handle the object file.
When porting it to run on a new system, you must supply:
HOST_PAGE_SIZE HOST_SEGMENT_SIZE HOST_MACHINE_ARCH (optional) HOST_MACHINE_MACHINE (optional) HOST_TEXT_START_ADDR HOST_STACK_END_ADDR
in the file ../include/sys/h-XXX.h (for your host). These values, plus the structures and macros defined in a.out.h on your host system, will produce a BFD target that will access ordinary a.out files on your host. To configure a new machine to use host-aout.c, specify:
TDEFAULTS = -DDEFAULT_VECTOR=host_aout_big_vec TDEPFILES= host-aout.o trad-core.o
in the config/XXX.mt file, and modify configure.ac
to use the
XXX.mt file (by setting "bfd_target=XXX
") when your
configuration is selected.
Description
The file aoutx.h provides for both the standard
and extended forms of a.out relocation records.
The standard records contain only an address, a symbol index, and a type field. The extended records (used on 29ks and sparcs) also have a full integer for an addend.
Description
aoutx.h exports several routines for accessing the
contents of an a.out file, which are gathered and exported in
turn by various format specific files (eg sunos.c).
aout_
size_swap_exec_header_in
Synopsis
void aout_size_swap_exec_header_in, (bfd *abfd, struct external_exec *bytes, struct internal_exec *execp);
Description
Swap the information in an executable header raw_bytes taken
from a raw byte stream memory image into the internal exec header
structure execp.
aout_
size_swap_exec_header_out
Synopsis
void aout_size_swap_exec_header_out (bfd *abfd, struct internal_exec *execp, struct external_exec *raw_bytes);
Description
Swap the information in an internal exec header structure
execp into the buffer raw_bytes ready for writing to disk.
aout_
size_some_aout_object_p
Synopsis
const bfd_target *aout_size_some_aout_object_p (bfd *abfd, struct internal_exec *execp, const bfd_target *(*callback_to_real_object_p) (bfd *));
Description
Some a.out variant thinks that the file open in abfd
checking is an a.out file. Do some more checking, and set up
for access if it really is. Call back to the calling
environment's "finish up" function just before returning, to
handle any last-minute setup.
aout_
size_mkobject
Synopsis
bfd_boolean aout_size_mkobject, (bfd *abfd);
Description
Initialize BFD abfd for use with a.out files.
aout_
size_machine_type
Synopsis
enum machine_type aout_size_machine_type (enum bfd_architecture arch, unsigned long machine, bfd_boolean *unknown);
Description
Keep track of machine architecture and machine type for
a.out's. Return the machine_type
for a particular
architecture and machine, or M_UNKNOWN
if that exact architecture
and machine can't be represented in a.out format.
If the architecture is understood, machine type 0 (default) is always understood.
aout_
size_set_arch_mach
Synopsis
bfd_boolean aout_size_set_arch_mach, (bfd *, enum bfd_architecture arch, unsigned long machine);
Description
Set the architecture and the machine of the BFD abfd to the
values arch and machine. Verify that abfd's format
can support the architecture required.
aout_
size_new_section_hook
Synopsis
bfd_boolean aout_size_new_section_hook, (bfd *abfd, asection *newsect);
Description
Called by the BFD in response to a bfd_make_section
request.