Date:	Fri Jun 18 13:36:50 1993
From:	grw AT tamu DOT edu
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	COFF linked binaries

Everybody,

	Thanks and three cheers to Charles W. Sandmann (sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu)
for solving the problem with running COFF linked files.  Apparantly there is
a bug where programs having <64K of total code+data fail when linked as COFF
and run under MS Windows.  Because I had only tested using small programs, I
didn't realize that it would work for large programs.

	For now, if you want to link with COFF format and your program is
<64K, just pad it out with some wasted data.  COFF is great because it
doesn't consume (somewhat more diplomatic term than "heave") four megabytes
for all programs.  For later, Mr Sandmann will either release a fix, or fix
it for version 1.11.

	Now all we need is a COFF linked version of gcc???bn, gas???bn,
bnu??bn, etc....

		George R. Welch
		grw AT tamu DOT edu

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