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Re: [Tinycc-devel] Release Candidate - please test


From: grischka
Subject: Re: [Tinycc-devel] Release Candidate - please test
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:10:35 +0100

From: "Rob Landley":
> On Monday 10 March 2008 13:11:32 grischka wrote:
> > Well, then maybe OS X uses a different object format and TCC
> > needs a new linker backend in order to work with it.
> 
> Yes, it's called mach-o, it's got four interesting flavors (x86, x86-64 for 
> Leopard, PPC-32, and arm for the iPhone), and it's been on my to-do list 
> since the middle off last year.  This should get you started:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach-O
> http://0xfe.blogspot.com/2006/03/how-os-x-executes-applications.html

Nice.  Anyway a new backend isn't exactly trivial.  Maybe you can get 
away with a "tiny" aproach similar to the one for win32, but that to 
tell I will leave to someone in the knowledge of OS X.

--- grischka





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