COFF to IEEE-695 Converter (cvt960)

The cvt960 utility converts a COFF file to IEEE-695 format.

cvt960 [ -option ]... i file [ o file ]

Each option must be preceded by a - character. (On DOS, you can also use a / character.) The options are listed below.

i file specifies the name of the COFF file to be converted. The input file must be in host-endian byte order.

Options

• a
  Converts files for use with the MRI Xray user interface. Use this option when converting files to be used with XICE production release 5.00 and earlier and XICE engineering release x263 and earlier. Later XICE versions do not need this option, and may not tolerate its effects.
• Aarch
  Specifies a specific 80960 architecture tag for the IEEE-695 output file. arch can be CORE, KA, SA, KB, SB, CA, CF, JA, JD, JF, HA, HD, HT, RP.
• c
  Specifies emitting column zero instead of column 1 when translating COFF line numbers into IEEE-695 line numbers.
• h
  Displays help information about the converter and exits.
• o file
  Puts the output of the conversion in file. By default, the output file is given the name of the input file with the suffix.x.
• s
  Stops conversion of debug information. The converted file contains no IEEE-695 line number, symbol table, or debugging information.
• V
  Displays version information about the converter and continues with the conversion.
• v960
  Displays version information about the converter and exits without doing anything else.
• w
  Suppresses warning messages; does not affect error messages.

Limitations

• The cvt960 converter translates position-independent code and data correctly, but the position-independent code symbols and position-independent data symbols lose the flags that mark them as position-independent.
• Use cvt960 only on COFF absolute-executable load modules. cvt960 does not translate archives or relocatable objects.
• The cvt960 converter does not translate symbolic information about parameters passed via the i960 processor's argument passing block. IEEE-695 does not provide a means of specifying the processor's argument passing convention.

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