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Since software is playing an increasingly important role in system-on-chip, retargetable compilation has been an active research area in the last few years. However, the retargetting of equally important downstream system tools, such as assemblers, linkers and debuggers, has either been ignored, or falls short of production quality due to the complexity involved in these tools. In this paper, we present a technique that can automatically retarget the GNU BFD library, the foundation library for a suite of binary tools. Other than having all the advantages enjoyed by open-source software by aligning to a de facto standard, our technique is systematic, as a result of using a formal model of abstract binary interface (ABI) as a new element of architectural model; and simple, as a result of leveraging free software to the largest extent.
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Abbaspour, M., Zhu, J. (2003). Automatic Porting of Binary File Descriptor Library. In: Badawy, W., Jullien, G. (eds) System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 711. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0351-4_18
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