Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/12/04/01:32:41
>> 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.
>
>You probably already know this, but just in case you don't: If you
>switch to ELF, be sure to configure the compiler for "--with-stabs".
>Otherwise, you'll get the DWARF debugging format by default. It's not
>supported by g++. Configuring for the "stabs" format will allow
>debugging of both C and C++ programs, using gdb.
I assume that's what Linux uses, then? [I've only had it for about a
week...]
>
>Other than that, ELF sounds OK to me. It's a pretty versatile object
>format, much more so than COFF.
So why wasn't it used ab initio?
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