Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/04/23/12:11:00
> I have a further question :)
>
> It's not my intention to question the design decisions made by the DJGPP
> developer(s), but what advantages exactly does COFF have over AOUT
> (forgive my ignorance)? I mean, with COFF I lose an extremely desirable
> feature -- that of being able to debug/step-through code in other source
> files, i.e. headers (I know you've answered this question of mine before,
> Eli).
COFF is the method of implementation for AOUT used by the GNU
compiler. This is not a choice made by the DJGPP developers.
>
> Also: in the source code for gcc, there is an option to insert stabs in
> the compiled file, kind of to get around the limitations of COFF. Does
> this *work* for DJGPP? I don't know nearly enough to change the
> compiler's output back to AOUT, but will this stabs-insertion that the
> compiler (if rebuilt...) re-enable the desired GDB features?
Good question. It seems to me that going to ELF would be better since
it is a better designed format than COFF.
Marc Singer
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