Re: [Tinycc-devel] TCC code generation for a stack based VM

[Fabrice Bellard]

Zoltán Lörincz wrote:
> > > But i have to implement a custom byte format wich has to be simpler
> > > than the elf format.
> >
> > If your format has to be more complicated than a raw binary image (which
> > TCC can generate with the -Wl,--oformat,binary option), then use ELF.
>
>
> Yes the format is simple, it should contain:
> -  the generated code  
> -  global data section
> -  relocation table 
> No symbol table or other additional sections are necessary. 
> But i will also have a look on the raw binary image of TCC to see if i
> can use it.

Use ELF, it does exactly what you want - no need to handle symbols if 
you don't need them. An ELF loader can be 50 line long. Moreover, I 
won't integrate another object or executable format in TinyCC if it is 
not a standard one.

Fabrice.