delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi | search |
X-Authentication-Warning: | delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f |
From: | "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have AT noavailemail DOT cmm> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: problem with AS from binutils 2.21.1 |
Date: | Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:40:44 -0500 |
Organization: | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
Lines: | 35 |
Message-ID: | <jdme62$sdt$1@speranza.aioe.org> |
References: | <8a32880d-526c-40ac-a9bb-e88fce4ee2aa AT z25g2000vbs DOT googlegroups DOT com> <21258842-845d-4b87-9c29-52d0528e2ca0 AT dp8g2000vbb DOT googlegroups DOT com> <9m1d3rFcctU1 AT mid DOT dfncis DOT de> <4f6d5674-a89a-4eed-a7c3-5e944257610e AT f11g2000yql DOT googlegroups DOT com> <9m3iofFpomU1 AT mid DOT dfncis DOT de> <4EFCDF18 DOT 8090607 AT iki DOT fi> <201112292056 DOT pBTKu6q6005225 AT delorie DOT com> <jdl08m$rnb$1 AT speranza DOT aioe DOT org> <83d3b5ubmf DOT fsf AT gnu DOT org> |
NNTP-Posting-Host: | 1sJtcFoJ+gWl8mxHhC9WoA.user.speranza.aioe.org |
X-Complaints-To: | abuse AT aioe DOT org |
X-MimeOLE: | Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.2001 |
X-Notice: | Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 |
X-Newsreader: | Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.2001 |
X-Priority: | 3 |
X-MSMail-Priority: | Normal |
Bytes: | 2363 |
To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Reply-To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org> wrote in message news:83d3b5ubmf DOT fsf AT gnu DOT org... > > From: "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have AT noavailemail DOT cmm> > > Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:37:07 -0500 > > "DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote in message > > news:201112292056 DOT pBTKu6q6005225 AT delorie DOT com... > > > > > Just to be 101% clear about this: this is not a limitation of > > > > > DJGPP's COFF, it's a general limitation of all 32-bit COFF > > > > > formats. Well. I'm also afraid that the same limitation will > > > > > "kill" DJGPP port of GCC. > > > > > > There is a way around this that Cygwin uses (PE is a coff-based > > > format) if someone wants to port it to djgpp... > > > > > > > Why PE? Why not ELF? > > DJ did not suggest to use PE in DJGPP. "There is a way around this that Cygwin uses (PE is a coff-based format) [...]" > He suggested to make COFF used by DJGPP work around the > 64K limitation using the same technique as in the PE format. Well, I can only respond to what he actually wrote, and not what he, nor you, thought he said. It's not logical to conclude that a fix was present in a coff-based, PE format, used in Cygwin, given what he wrote and the way he wrote it. Rod Pemberton
webmaster | delorie software privacy |
Copyright © 2019 by DJ Delorie | Updated Jul 2019 |