From: dan AT dan DOT emsphone DOT com (Dan Nelson)
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Subject: Re: COFF and ELF exec formats
Date: 22 Sep 1996 23:55:27 GMT
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Hasdi Rodzmann Hashim <hasdi AT umich DOT edu> wrote:
> Kevin Moule (krmoule AT undergrad DOT math DOT uwaterloo DOT ca) wrote:
> : The best thing about all this is that its already been implemented
> : for linux, and would require only a port to DJGPP. But this gets
> : back to my original message, is it possible and/or practical to
> : port this to DJGPP?
>
> possible? yeah. practical? Well, until you have the elf-executable loader
> that works in DOS, there is little reason for djgpp to generate ELF
> binaries and shared libraries. Heck, you can generate ELF binaries and
> shared libraries from other platform such as gcc under Linux. It's just
> the elf loader that needs to be made/worked on.

Shared libraries work just fine in coff format, also.  FreeBSD has had
shared coff libraries for years.  The object format doesn't really
matter.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson AT emsphone DOT com