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Hi networkers,

I am looking for someone that has followed this path before and can offer
insight or source code.

I have successfully created a cross compiler (upto the Assembly source level)
on a Sun SparcSation OS4.1.1 to target QB2 386SX Unix SVR3.2. I am stuck at the
Assembly level with gas-1.36. I used this version of gas because I found the
COFF packages on internet only patched this version (I found no other patches).

Using the patches and setting all flags to source and target h/w, I managed
to get "a386" (gas) to produce a COFF output. Two problems still exist:

1) The structurs sizes define on the SVR3.2 were hard wired. This caused 
   "a386" to crash until I changed  it to sizeof(). This led me to watch for
   alligbment problems. I had to use SVR3.2 system includes for COFF data.

2) Once I fixed the first problem I am left with routines that write structures
   from the Sparc to the NFS mounted QB2 disk, using wrong structure size for
   the QB2. This is due to different allignement of the fields in the COFF
   structures on the writing Sparc and reading 386SX. Byte swapping is taken
   care of correctly.

I am now left with the task of modifying all the writing routines for COFF.
Before I embark on this perilouse journy I though of the net.

Please any insights are welcomed source code most welcomed, pointers etc.
I am using the sun compiler rather than gcc-1.39 which I can use also.
Is there more alignment control there (a thought)?

Thanks,

	>- Oran 
oran@spg.amdahl.com