* i386-tdep.c (i386_frameless_function_invocation,

[binutils.git] / bfd / PORTING

diff --git a/bfd/PORTING b/bfd/PORTING
index 3c4befe0fb98d1b75520d05ff294f21d7d3e6579..c8bfd77b96ffb1b4b1da02b2fbc111418fec7025 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/PORTING
+++ b/bfd/PORTING
@@ -9,20 +9,29 @@ Porting to a new host
 ---------------------
 Pick a name for your host. Call that <host>.
 (<host> might be sun4, ...)
-Create a file hosts/h-<host>.
+Create a file hosts/<host>.mh.
 
 Porting to a new target
 -----------------------
 Pick a name for your target. Call that <target>.
-You need to create <target>.c and config/mt-<target>.
-
-config/mt-<target> is a Makefile fragment.
+Call the name for your CPU architecture <cpu>.
+You need to create <target>.c and config/<target>.mt,
+and add a case for it to a case statements in bfd/configure.host and
+bfd/config.bfd, which associates each canonical host type with a BFD
+host type (used as the base of the makefile fragment names), and to the
+table in bfd/configure.in which associates each target vector with
+the .o files it uses.
+
+config/<target>.mt is a Makefile fragment.
 The following is usually enough:
 DEFAULT_VECTOR=<target>_vec
 SELECT_ARCHITECTURES=bfd_<cpu>_arch
 
 See the list of cpu types in archures.c, or "ls cpu-*.c".
-for more information about .mt and .mh files, see config/README.
+If your architecture is new, you need to add it to the tables
+in bfd/archures.c, opcodes/configure.in, and binutils/objdump.c.
+
+For more information about .mt and .mh files, see config/README.
 
 The file <target>.c is the hard part.  It implements the
 bfd_target <target>_vec, which includes pointers to
@@ -37,7 +46,7 @@ you automatically for many a.out systems.  Do:
        make gen-aout
        ./gen-aout <target> > <target>.c
 (This only works if you are building on the target ("native").
-If you must make a cross-port from scratch, copy  the most
+If you must make a cross-port from scratch, copy the most
 similar existing file that includes aout-target.h, and fix what is wrong.)
 
 Check the parameters in <target>.c, and fix anything that is wrong.
@@ -47,7 +56,7 @@ TARGET_IS_BIG_ENDIAN_P
        Should be defined if <target> is big-endian.
 
 N_HEADER_IN_TEXT(x)
-       See discussion in ../include/aout/aout32.h.
+       See discussion in ../include/aout/aout64.h.
 
 BYTES_IN_WORD
        Number of bytes per word. (Usually 4 but can be 8.)
@@ -63,10 +72,10 @@ TEXT_START_ADDR
        The address of the start of the text segemnt in
        virtual memory.  Normally, the same as the entry point.
 
-PAGE_SIZE
+TARGET_PAGE_SIZE
 
 SEGMENT_SIZE
-        Usually, the same as the PAGE_SIZE.
+        Usually, the same as the TARGET_PAGE_SIZE.
         Alignment needed for the data segment.
 
 TARGETNAME