From:	mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: COFF obsolete, let's port to Elf for version 3
Date:	25 May 1998 11:10:30 GMT
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Shawn Hargreaves (Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk) wrote:
> Ruiter de M writes:
> >I'm not that convinced that this incompatibility is unacceptable. If
> >this ELF-thing is being worked on it will be for DJGPP-v3 I guess, and
> >considering the incompatibilities between v1 and v2 this
> >incompatibility might be justified.

> I think it is a bad thing to make changes that will break any programs
> which used to compile, if there is any possible alternative to that. 

Not to any price, I think.

> IMHO it is more important to maintain full compatibility with existing
> programs, but of course this decision must ultimately be made by whoever
> actually does the work of adding ELF support...

True, but I would like to quote DJ himself, from djgpp-workers:

"If we do go through the hell of converting object formats again,
we're dumping the underscores. It will be slightly worse during the
conversion, but it will be better in the long run, especially if we
can be 100% compatible with Linux's ELF format."

-- 
Groeten, Michel.        http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter
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