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								This file documents the BFD library.
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								Copyright (C) 1991, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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								     A GNU Manual
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								<a name="mmo"></a>Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="elf.html#elf">elf</a>,
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								<h3 class="section">3.5 mmo backend</h3>
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								<p>The mmo object format is used exclusively together with Professor
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								Donald E. Knuth's educational 64-bit processor MMIX.  The simulator
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								<span class="command">mmix</span> which is available at
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								<a href="http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs/mmix.tar.gz">http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs/mmix.tar.gz</a>
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								understands this format.  That package also includes a combined
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								assembler and linker called <span class="command">mmixal</span>.  The mmo format has
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								no advantages feature-wise compared to e.g. ELF.  It is a simple
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								non-relocatable object format with no support for archives or
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								debugging information, except for symbol value information and
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								line numbers (which is not yet implemented in BFD).  See
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								<a href="http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/mmix.html">http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/mmix.html</a> for more
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								information about MMIX.  The ELF format is used for intermediate
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								object files in the BFD implementation.
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