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> > Just to be 101% clear about this: this is not a limitation of DJGPP's 
> > COFF, it's a general limitation of all 32-bit COFF formats.
> Well. I'm also afraid that the same limitation will "kill" DJGPP port of 
> GCC.

There is a way around this that Cygwin uses (PE is a coff-based
format) if someone wants to port it to djgpp...

Basically, if the number of relocs exceed 65534, 65535 is stored in
the count (or a flag is set) and the actual count is stored in a
32-bit field elsewhere.