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To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>,
        "Paul Derbyshire" <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Subject: Re: COFF obsolete, let's port to Elf for version 3
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 09:56:17 -0700
Message-ID: <19980516165612.AAC29559@ppp105.cartsys.com>
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At 12:13  5/15/1998 +0000, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:

>Download it, analize it, and write an ELF loader for DJGPP ;-)))
>The big problem: You need binutils able to generate ELF files. This people 
>uses:
>1) GCC from Linux.
>2) Your own linker.

I don't understand why making Binutils generate ELF is a problem. It should
just be a matter of reconfiguring. After all, it produces ELF just fine on
all sorts of Unix systems.

As I understood it, the major problem was that the stub, debugging
libraries, and go32-v2 would all have to be rewritten, or extensively
modified. Not to mention other tools like DJP, the Allegro datafile code, etc...

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com