Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 11:58:05 -0500 From: DJ Delorie To: vincent AT physique DOT ens DOT fr Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: Re: > dld why do you think dld has to be rebuilt entirely, there is no > hope that there authors could adapt it for coff ? second is there a Most of dld deals with the object file format, which is completely different for coff than a.out. If dld already has a coff loader in it (didn't last time I looked) then that could be modified to work. > temporary solution : is it not possible to compile and impose the bsd > format for the object file ? in that can could i use all the dpmi No. The BSD format makes DPMI uses an extra 4M of memory, and the symbolic debugging blows up when you mix formats.