Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1998/05/22/23:47:18
At 09:19 5/22/1998 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
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>> I'm still not sure what all the benefits to switching to elf are.
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>There are two that I know of, besides the "compatible with Linux" one:
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>1. Better debugging support for newer languages
>2. Weak symbols (if you don't know, don't worry)
Aha. IMHO, #2 alone would come very close to making it worthwhile. I'd love
to see the libraries that are around use weak symbols. (I had a lot of
trouble porting gnuplot to Allegro, because it had a global variable `key'...)
Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com
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