TI's "TMS470" proprietary C compiler toolchain for ARM7/ARMv4t processors,
whose Windows executable binaries appear in the legendary "TSM30" GSM mobile
phone firmware source release by HispaPhreak (see ../../GSM/TSM30 on this FTP
site) and which is used to compile that firmware for the ARM7TDMI core in the
GSM baseband processor, uses a variant of COFF for its object file format.
It is TI's own variant of COFF, belonging to the same family as TI's COFF
formats for their TMS320Cxxx DSP architectures, and is different from the
PE-oriented variant of ARM COFF supported by the standard releases of GNU
Binutils.

A Google search has revealed that someone named Peter Maydell produced a patch
for binutils in early 2004 to support this object file format.  This patch
appears here in binutils-tiarm-patch.pmaydell2004; the original author's
announcement can be found here:

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2004-03/msg00413.html

binutils-2.12.1+tiarm.tar.bz2 is binutils-2.12.1 with that patch applied and
no other changes.