Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/04/24/13:07:13
>> >Good question. It seems to me that going to ELF would be better since
>> >it is a better designed format than COFF.
>>
>> Funny, I seem to recall you opposing ELF when it was last discussed.
>>
>
>Are you punning [sic] me? If not, I don't recall a conversation about
>ELF vs COFF.
I'm not punning you this time...but don't you remember when V2 was being
planned one or two years ago, a discussion of whether or not DJGPP should
simultaneously switch to ELF. Unless I am mistaken, you expressed opposition
and I made a lame pun about your not wanting an identifier collision.
>I've been looking at ELF format for other things and have grown to
>appreciate the layout. COFF is very difficult to identify and parse,
>while ELF is designed to be revisioned.
Glad you've come around. I guess the switch'll have to wait until V3,
though. :-( (Or maybe not. In the Linux binutils there is a script to
convert archives from a.out to ELF; perhaps it could be adapted for
use with DJGPP.)
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