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From: Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Compiling ELF with DJGPP
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 20:30:41 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi,

On Jul 4, 2:50 pm, Cesar Rabak <csra DOT  DOT  DOT  AT yahoo DOT com DOT br> wrote:
> Rugxulo escreveu:> Hi,
> [snipped]
> > And surely you can correct me here, but doesn't ELF allow more
> > sections (more than 3) and in whatever order? Anyways, It's obviously
> > very popular (BSD, Linux, etc). But no, we don't really need it.   ;-)
>
> > BTW, I forgot to mention another way to get ELF from DJGPP:
> > OBJCONV !!
>
> [snipped]
>
> Correct me if I miss something obvious, but isn't this to use one or
> other module compiled in DJGPP in an ELF based build?
>
> Otherwise, all the advantages posted WRT number and order of sections
> wouldn't come by, right?

Right. I just meant "in general", ELF is alleged to be better than
COFF (hence the greater popularity, I suppose). I didn't mean in this
case.