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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ELF vs COFF
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:10:52 CDT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> >   Well, kids, I positively vote for ELF. But then, again, would someone
> > PLEASE adopt FSDB for it??? please??

That's right - the symbol reading stuff in edebug/fsdb/ldbg would have to
be added for ELF, or you would be forced to use GDB :-)

> If somaday djgpp will use ELF, will then it use shared libraries?

Probably not, unless someone writes this code.  We could use shared libraries
right now with the COFF stuff if someone wanted it bad enough ...