From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: a.out.h
Date: 28 Nov 2002 16:25:40 GMT
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deckerben <bdeck AT lycos DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

> Why is "a.out" the 'default COFF output file name when DJGPP "is *not* an
> a.out system"?

It just is.

You're mixing up the two uses of "a.out", here.  A.out is the default
output file name of the Unix compiler/linker, and DJGPP follows that
line.  

"a.out" is also used as the name of the _file_format_ of that file on
the original Unix systems, but DJGPP does not follow that line (nor
does hardly anything else, these days) Only systems using that file
format would really be callable "a.out systems", so DJGPP isn't one.

> And why did aout.h come with DJGPP v1?

Because IIRC, back in those days the default DJGPP file format was
indeed a.out.  But not anymore in DJGPP V2.  So no more aout.h,
either.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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