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To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Subject: Re: underscores: a.out vs coff vs elf vs gcc vs as vs ld
Cc: bill AT taniwha DOT tssc DOT co DOT nz, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 20:42:42 -0700
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At 09:19  5/22/1998 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
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>> I'm still not sure what all the benefits to switching to elf are.  
>
>There are two that I know of, besides the "compatible with Linux" one:
>
>1. Better debugging support for newer languages
>2. Weak symbols (if you don't know, don't worry)

Aha. IMHO, #2 alone would come very close to making it worthwhile. I'd love
to see the libraries that are around use weak symbols. (I had a lot of
trouble porting gnuplot to Allegro, because it had a global variable `key'...)

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com