Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 93 11:58:05 -0500
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To:	vincent AT physique DOT ens DOT fr
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re:

> dld   why do you think dld has to be rebuilt entirely, there is no
> hope that there authors could adapt it for coff ? second is there a 

Most of dld deals with the object file format, which is completely
different for coff than a.out.  If dld already has a coff loader in it
(didn't last time I looked) then that could be modified to work.

> temporary solution : is it not possible to compile and impose the bsd
> format for the object file ? in that can could i use all the dpmi

No.  The BSD format makes DPMI uses an extra 4M of memory, and the
symbolic debugging blows up when you mix formats.

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