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Hi,

On Jul 4, 12:47 am, DJ Delorie <d DOT  DOT  DOT  AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but you used COFF because "It was the best
> > at the time (better than a.out), and ELF didn't exist yet".
>
> Yup.

And surely you can correct me here, but doesn't ELF allow more
sections (more than 3) and in whatever order? Anyways, It's obviously
very popular (BSD, Linux, etc). But no, we don't really need it.   ;-)

BTW, I forgot to mention another way to get ELF from DJGPP:
OBJCONV !!


"This utility can be used for converting object files between COFF/PE,
OMF, ELF and Mach-O formats for all 32-bit and 64-bit x86 platforms.
Can modify symbol names in object files. Can build, modify and convert
function libraries across platforms. Can dump object files and
executable files. Also includes a very good disassembler supporting
the SSE4 and SSE5 instruction sets. Source code included (GPL)."

File name: objconv.zip, size: 651099, last modified: 2008-Jun-05.

http://www.agner.org/optimize/#objconv

It's a Win32 .EXE, but it runs in DOS via HXRT. It comes with src too,
so you can probably recompile it (though I've never tried). EDIT:
Weakly tried, didn't work (meh).

http://www.japheth.de/HX.html