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At 06:48 PM 2/2/99 -0500, you wrote:

>> When will that be done? (I understand only an estimate is possible and not
>> a specific instant when it will be done.)
>
>That question is best asked on the egcs mailing list.

I'm on it, I asked it there, and there was no usable reply.

>> NT?????
>
>NT uses a variant of COFF for its native programs.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. I guess somehow I thought even
Microsoft would have done better than that.

Say, I wonder how much money you'd need to convince Bill Gates to tell the
world all the details of the Microsoft Proprietary Coff Extension That
Allows Reasonable Debug Info And Non Buggy Template Instantiation (TM) and
(C) Microsoft Inc. that presumably exists, and make it free for everyone? ;-)

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