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> Is this a hard requirement, or are the BFD developers willing to look
> into supporting variable-sized headers?

This isn't a hard requirement; bfd can do anything a target needs.
However, DJGPP support is built on top of existing COFF support, and
the COFF module doesn't expect variable sized headers.  I suppose a
djgpp-specific header reader/writer could be used to handle it,
though.  In theory, Win32 PE programs have a similarly variable sized
header, so you could look at the PE support to see how it deals with
it.