Re: [avr-gcc-list] gcc and avr studio assembler.. link possibilities?

[E. Weddington]

On 13 Feb 2004 at 19:54, Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> As "E. Weddington" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >Assuming that the assembly function was written to the AVR-GCC
> >calling convention (found in the avr-libc FAQ), the only problem you
> >might run into would be file formats, i.e. is the Atmel Assembler
> >object file format compatible with (can be read by) GCC?
> 
> AFAIK the Atmel assembler uses this simplicistic `nordic object file
> format'.  This is incompatible with the GNU tools.  It probably
> wouldn't be too hard to write a parser for the GNU binutils for this
> format (there once used to be one already), but it's probably way less
> effort required to convert the assembler sources to gas format.

Ah, thanks for reminding me about the Nordic Object File Format.

I've always thought that that would be a good open source project:
an Atmel Assembler to GNU Assembler Convertor.
It would certainly help people in migration to the GNU tools.