binutils

According the the gcc build instructions you can build binutils concurrently with building gcc (as well as gmp,mpc,etc). Here's what that page says : If you also intend to build binutils (either to upgrade an existing installation or for use in place of the corresponding tools of your OS), unpack the binutils distribution either in the same directory or a separate one. In the latter case, add symbolic links to any components of the binutils you intend to build alongside the compiler (bfd, binutils, gas, gprof, ld, opcodes, ...) to the directory containing the GCC sources. Likewise the GMP,

When developing for native platform, I can use ldd to list all the shared libraries (.so files) a binary executable I build will try to load upon start-up. But when cross-compiling, I don't know how to get the same information. The ldd is not a normal binutils utility, like strip or ar , that can be built alongside gcc for cross compiling, but instead, it is a cryptic shell script that apparently can only run on native platform. So, using the cross-target binutils tools, is there any way to get a list of the dynamically linked dependency for of a foreign binary? is there any way to get a list

So, we're studying MIPS architecture at school and we're implementing a MIPS32 architecture. I thought I'd use GNU cross-binutils as assembler but I'm getting weird output when dealing with instructions jal, j and jr. The assembler seems to insert the instructions at the wrong places. I have no idea why this happens, and I doubt the MIPS assembler would be that broken, so I assume this is supposed to happen. Here is my dummy assembly file: .section .text .globl __start __start: addi $a0, $0, 100 addi $a1, $0, 200 jal test test: add $v0, $a0, $a1 jr $ra However, when I disassemble I get this

I am writing a tool which uses libbfd and libopcodes in x86-32 and x86-64 Linux to perform disassembly. The problem is that whilst I am able to get libopcodes to disassemble, I am unable to get any instruction information. For the purposes of demonstration, I have made a minimal example which reproduces my issue. The program should disassemble itself from entry point to the first RET / RETQ . The code is a bit hacked up with globals and error checking has been omitted for brevity, etc. but should illustrate the issue clearly. #include <bfd.h> #include <dis-asm.h> #include <stdbool.h> #include

I'm having a lot of trouble compiling the otherwise excellent Contiki OS on my macbook pro (with mac os x 10.6). Contiki actually uses a lot of GNU-specific features and options of GCC, AR, LD, and so on. So I installed those utilities via macports, but it looks like "port install binutils" does not install GNU ld, does it ? So, the question is, how do I get GNU ld on my mac ? Is there a simple alternative to the hard-way (i.e. the wget, configure, make, make install way) ? As far as I can tell, GNU binutils does not support the Mach-O format. None of the documentation mentions it, and some