Date:	Fri, 2 Dec 94 16:42:18 -0500
From:	dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	object file format change?

What do people think about changing the object file format from COFF
to ELF for V2.0?  We would be able to make all the configurations 100%
compatible with Linux to make things a lot easier, and get better
debugging and linking support too.

The drawback is that all existing libraries will have to be
recompiled, but is that such a bad thing?  The V2 headers are
completely different anyway, so this would prevent us from having
version problems (like structure size differences).  It would mean
that you can't use V1's gcc to make V2 executables, but I suspect that
it won't be a problem for long.

Maybe we can add a djgpp_v2 directory on simtel to keep things
straight for a while?

DJ

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