Compiling memtest from sources on cygwin

Sun Jun 19 15:11:00 GMT 2005

alexeik@nordlines.ru wrote:
>> Thank you for prompt response. I have just installed my ancient copy of 
> Fedora and there 'make all' of memtest works OK. I also found 
> '.previous' in 'info as' (on cygwin):
>>> `.previous'
>> ===========
>>>> This is one of the ELF section stack manipulation directives. The
>> others are `.section' (*note Section::), `.subsection' (*note
>> SubSection::), `.pushsection' (*note PushSection::), and `.popsection'
>> (*note PopSection::).

ELF is a different binary format.
>> This directive swaps the current section (and subsection) with most
>> recently referenced section (and subsection) prior to this one.
>> Multiple `.previous' directives in a row will flip between two sections
>> (and their subsections).
>>>> In terms of the section stack, this directive swaps the current
>> section with the top section on the section stack.
>>> And since cygwin works under Windows I suspect, that cygwin people setup 
> the 'as' program to support windows loader. Now I am thinking -- should 
> I go to linux, or stay with cygwin. Actually I need to write a small 
> program, which works on bare metall w/o any o/s.

Windows binary format differs from ELF. You need to port the program.
Gerrit
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