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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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object files in the BFD implementation.
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