Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/12/03/13:54:39
>What do people think about changing the object file format from COFF
>to ELF for V2.0? We would be able to make all the configurations 100%
>compatible with Linux to make things a lot easier, and get better
>debugging and linking support too.
Sounds good to me...especially if it also makes shared libs possible.
>The drawback is that all existing libraries will have to be
>recompiled, but is that such a bad thing? The V2 headers are
>completely different anyway, so this would prevent us from having
>version problems (like structure size differences). It would mean
>that you can't use V1's gcc to make V2 executables, but I suspect that
>it won't be a problem for long.
Can't the BFD library handle multiple input formats? (I haven't looked
at the actual source, but the info file seems to say so...)
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