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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: "Paul Derbyshire" <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 11:46:54 +0000
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Subject: Re: COFF obsolete, let's port to Elf for version 3
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"Paul Derbyshire" <pderbysh AT usa DOT net> wrote:

> I say it's time to dump coff and use elf for djgpp 3.0.
> 
> Coff problems:
>   * Glitches with nested functions, see "GCC bug?" thread.
Are you sure it isn't a plain bug and nothing more?

>   * Template instantiation problems.
Yes it shows the obsolecense of COFF: The developers designed mechanism to 
solve it in ELF files but not in COFF.

>   * Limit on debug info forces some people to compile some programs with no
> debug info.
Forget it. You can use STABs debug info in a COFF file. COFF debug info doesn't 
have any relation with the COFF format. 

There are a group of persons developing something like DJGPP (they are in a 
VERY "green" stage) to use ELF under Linux/DOS and Win32. I saw the package and 
it seems to work OK. Perhaps somebody can take the ELF loader from it. It could 
be a first step in this direction.

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