Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/05/20/03:04:43
Andrew Crabtree writes:
>GCC is IMO the problem child. For instance, rewriting the stuff to
>generate labels, or getting rid of pre-pending underscores.
I know that Linux doesn't use the underscore prefix with ELF objects,
but surely this is just a convention of what the compiler has been
configured to output, and not a specific requirement of the object
format?
If ELF really doesn't allow these underscores, I think that would be a
very strong reason to continue using COFF. Changing this convention
would break every djgpp program that contains external assembler files,
which is IMHO an unacceptable degree of incompatibility...
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