X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f
From: "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have AT bitfoad DOT cmm>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP and FreeBASIC
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:28:23 -0400
Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server
Lines: 33
Message-ID: <etfjoq$o02$1@aioe.org>
References: <OF8AF922AF DOT 4607ACC7-ON872572A0 DOT 00607846-872572A0 DOT 0060B4E6 AT seagate DOT com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: IVw7K97ih4IohxRqyKkqFw.user.aioe.org
X-Complaints-To: abuse AT aioe DOT org
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441
X-Priority: 3
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com


<Gordon DOT Schumacher AT seagate DOT com> wrote in message
news:OF8AF922AF DOT 4607ACC7-ON872572A0 DOT 00607846-872572A0 DOT 0060B4E6 AT seagate DOT com...
> "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have AT bitfoad DOT cmm> wrote on Fri, 16 Mar 2007
> 00:18:12 -0400:
>
> # Daniel Borca also has an experimental ELF version of DJGPP which
produces
> # true flat binaries:
> # http://www.geocities.com/dborca/djgpp/elf/djelf.html
>
> Hmm, I had no idea anyone was even working on this!
>
> That seems like the thing to roll in for v2.05 - gotta get v2.04 out
> first though :)
>

Well, he's not the only one.  Apparently, I posted these two to another NG
and not here...

DJGPP ELF binutils:
http://membres.lycos.fr/placr/

another ELF binutils:
http://elfbinutils.narod.ru/

I would suspect that with GRUB and GRUB4DOS being able to load ELF binaries,
DJGPP and ELF would be useful for OS development with DJGPP.


Rod Pemberton