From:	paik AT webnexus DOT com (Samuel S. Paik)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DJGPP V2.01 Released
Date:	Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:28:37 -0800
Organization:	xyne KS
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>Pardon my newbie-ism, but what else uses COFF, and if I wanted to go
>nuts and mix gcc with another compiler, would I be able to do so???

Microsoft uses a COFF variant for their development tools.  The PE
executable format (the Win32 native executable format) is also a COFF
variant.

I have gotten MASM to produce a COFF object file that linked with
DJGPP compiled code and worked.  The main incompatibility (as I recall)
is that locally defined data (except for the first locally defined data
element) does not get properly relocated.  There is a workaround for
this--just specify a single chunk of memory and supply offsets into
it yourself.

Sam Paik

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