Message-Id: <199605210845.EAA16981@delorie.com>
Date:         Tue, 21 May 96 11:30:50 LIT
From: Martynas Kunigelis <martynas DOT kunigelis AT VM DOT KTU DOT LT>
Subject:      Re: Win32 COFF
To: DJGPP mailing list <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
In-Reply-To:  Your message of Mon, 20 May 1996 23:10:35 +1200

Our friend Malcolm Taylor wrote:
>
>Why exactly do you want to support ELF?
>
  I didn't say I wanted that. I said, 'if ELF has advantages over COFF'.
  You showed me that there's nothing special about it that COFF does not have.
>
>I've tried to give you an overview of the most important features of
>PE/COFF so that you might be better able to make you decision. My
>opinion is that it may not be worth the work for ELF, however PE/COFF
>support would possibly kill 3 birds with one stone (to modify the
>phrase :). Relocation, DLLs under DOS and pave the way for full Win32
>support.
>
  Cool! Cool! Now we only need someone to write the linker. BTW, what about
  Win32 resources, the thing would have to link those too. You said you had
  no time for that... Damn.. But maybe... someday.. you could find some?
  Please?... :)  :)
>
>Man this has turned into an essay :-)
>
  Into a really nice one, let me say.

Martynas