mrchocky: Oh, and one last thing - I DID address the issue. nunfetishist's original post posed the idea of an ELF toolchain for RISC OS. You suggested modifying all the existing RISC OS tools to support ELF (in addition to AOF), whereas I suggested it might be easier just to use the ELF-producing gas, objdump, objcopy, ld, nm, ar and ranlib which are part of binutils *already* - the effort required getting a RISC OS-oriented runtime library working with the existing GNU tools being considerably less than the effort required to make the GCCSDK talk ELF.
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