From:	"Andrew Crabtree" <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: COFF obsolete, let's port to Elf for version 3
Date:	Mon, 18 May 1998 10:27:56 -0700
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Nate Eldredge wrote in message
<19980516165612 DOT AAC29559 AT ppp105 DOT cartsys DOT com>...
>At 12:13  5/15/1998 +0000, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
>I don't understand why making Binutils generate ELF is a problem.
I would guess that part to be not too difficult.  Simply changing the
configure script
to select elf files instead of coff.  Could be more work but I doubt it.
The bigger issue (aside from the whole stub thing), is configuring gcc to
produce elf.  This would require major rewrites of the target macros.

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