On Mar 9, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote:

capabilities.  Just looking at "binutils" and "bfd", without having
the slightest idea what their real intent might be and how to apply it
to P9GCC, then finding wonderful snippets such as

Binutils are the things for dealing with binaries: as, ld, nm are
the primary ones. They're built on top of BFD (Binary File Descriptor)
which is essentially an object-oriented way of looking at object
file formats; the tools can be configured to be cross platform
and even convert an object file in say, a.out format to COFF or
from COFF to ELF, and so on.

Just out of curiosity, what is the Plan 9 executable format?

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