Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 20:44:35 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Mike Little <MikeL AT amprsoft DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: COFF and ELF exec formats
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On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Mike Little wrote:

>I asked, and they don't have any objection.
>Has anyone any information on how easy/hard it will be to put the ELF
>support back into the compiler and tools?
Well, in fact, the support is already there.  LD and related tools use BFD
library to write object files.  BFD already has support for ELF so, I imagine,
that adding the support to DJGPP would be a matter of changing a) gas code to
output ELF objects, b) LD code to link together ELF modules and/or convert
COFF ones to ELF format during the linking process (is it a loseless
operation?), c) writing a new image loader

mark

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