From: "deckerben" <bdeck AT lycos DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: a.out.h
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 17:01:17 +0100
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"DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote in message
news:200211231403 DOT gANE3fg28636 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com...
>
> > It appears not to (as far as I could see with the web page). Not
directly
> > anyway.
>
> Then djgpp doesn't use it.  DJGPP is *not* an a.out system.  Any code
> that assumes that will need to be changed.


Oops, now I am confused. How does this fit with
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/lexicon/:

""
a.out
This is the default COFF output file name for djgpp's linker, ld. However,
djgpp version 2 also creates an EXE file, whose default name is a.exe.
The -o option to gcc changes the default output name.

Also, the original Unix object format was called, for lack of imagination,
the a.out format.
""

Why is "a.out" the 'default COFF output file name when DJGPP "is *not* an
a.out system"?

And why did aout.h come with DJGPP v1?

Ben