Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/12/05/07:00:16
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 94 13:24:20 EST
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu
> What do people think about changing the object file format from COFF to ELF
> for V2.0?...The drawback is that all existing libraries will have to be
> recompiled, but is that such a bad thing?
Conversion to version 2 is going to involve a certain amount of pain, but it
sounds like it will be worth it. I doubt if I would have noticed the object
file format change if you didn't mention it. Wasn't something else used
before COFF? I found that change transparent.
I didn't -- I had to redo Emacs' dumping. Right now I can think of
three programs that would need some major hacking if the format was
changed: Emacs, my Full Screen Debugger, and V2's djasm.
So I don't think a change would be a good thing.
Morten
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