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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Standard 32-bit libraries
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 08:26:04 CDT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> I guess the switch'll have to wait until V3,
> though. :-(  (Or maybe not.  In the Linux binutils there is a script to
> convert archives from a.out to ELF; perhaps it could be adapted for
> use with DJGPP.)

To support non-COFF images in V2, at the very least someone would need to
re-write the image load portion of the stub loader (in DJASM) and the 
debugger load routine (in v2load).  There are also places that look for
the COFF magic number to see if an image is a stubbed image, etc.  Nothing
real hard, but it's a non-trivial chunk of work (several hours/days).
Adding the code to v2load (which can be debugged) to support ELF would
probably be the first step.