Date: Tue, 6 Dec 94 10:02:08 +0900
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: mtakahar AT jp DOT oracle DOT com (Mineharu Takahara)
Subject: Re: object file format change?

At  9:31 AM 94.12.5 +0100, terra AT diku DOT dk wrote:
>   > What do people think about changing the object file format from COFF to
>ELF
>   > for V2.0?...The drawback is that all existing libraries will have to be
>   > recompiled, but is that such a bad thing?
>
>   Conversion to version 2 is going to involve a certain amount of pain, but it
>   sounds like it will be worth it.  I doubt if I would have noticed the object
>   file format change if you didn't mention it.  Wasn't something else used
>   before COFF?  I found that change transparent.
>
>I didn't -- I had to redo Emacs' dumping.  Right now I can think of
>three programs that would need some major hacking if the format was
>changed: Emacs, my Full Screen Debugger, and V2's djasm.
>
>So I don't think a change would be a good thing.
>
>Morten

Emacs has already have ELF version of dumping routine for Unixes.  I don't
think it is difficult to migrate becuase MS-DOS/DJGPP specific change to
existing COFF version is trivial.


Mine