Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:19:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Jimmy Wan <vecna AT engin DOT umich DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP V2.01 Released
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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Jimmy Wan wrote:

> Pardon my newbie-ism, but what else uses COFF, and if I wanted to go
> nuts and mix gcc with another compiler, would I be able to do so???

Mixing object files from different compilers, at least on MSDOS, is not
recommended.  If you ever tried to mix e.g. Borland C with Microsoft C you
know what I'm talking about.  There are all kind of subtleties which
usually work against you in a way that makes debugging very hard.