From: "Alexei A. Frounze" <alex DOT fru AT mtu-net DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: COFF - relocation entries
Date: 28 Nov 1999 23:02:27 GMT
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Mark & Candice White wrote:

> I read your discussion thread of "JLOC and COFF" with John Fine.
> So I'm sure your talking about nonlinked COFF, but just in case
> I will say it seems trivial to write a loader for linked COFF.

Nonlinked means a COFF file w/o optinoal (a.out) header? Linked with such header,
right?

> If your working on a way to use COFF as a dll type format for your
> hobby OS, please make it easy and available for others to add to their
> projects.

Not dlls (although why not?), but executables. I've chosen COFF because DJGPP is a
free compiler that generates such files. I want to make development easy for anyone.

> Just out of curiosity why are you using COFF not ELF?

Don't know. ELF is not bad... But DJGPP for DOS doesn't generate ELFs, although for
Linux ELF is a normal thing (I use DOS/Win).

Bye.
Alexei A. Frounze
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