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From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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Subject: | Re: COFF - relocation entries |
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Date: | 29 Nov 1999 12:33:50 -0500 |
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On 28 Nov 1999, Mark & Candice White wrote: > Just out of curiosity why are you using COFF not ELF? > ELF has object, and linked forms like COFF, but also a > dynamically linkable form too. According to Dark Fiber: > http://www.mega-tokyo.com/os/os-faq.html > recompiling the dos bintools to work with ELF is not to hard. Moving DJGPP to ELF involves much more than reconfiguring Binutils. The stub loader needs to be rewritten, the entire debug support library needs to be enhanced to know about ELF debug info, several core development tools need major revisions, and all the toolkit libraries that use assembly need to be revised. For such a formidable task, there's currently not enough motivation. More details about this can be found in section 22.21 of the DJGPP FAQ list.
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