From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <10104300133.AA13858@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Fileutils 4.0 beta 2
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 20:33:56 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com (Mark E.), djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <2561-Sat28Apr2001210126+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Apr 28, 2001 09:01:26 PM
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> > > Is it conceivable to add to a future Binutils version support for the
> > > other stubs, e.g., by defining new coff-go32-* targets?
> > 
> > Sure as long as the stub length is constant.
> 
> I don't think PMODE/DJ stub will ever change, and changes in CWSDSTUB
> are unlikely.  So I think it would be a good idea to add their support
> in a future version of Binutils.

If horrible bugs or really cool enhancements ever become available for
CWSDSTUB or PMODE/DJ I may release new versions (pending allocation of
time from wife, kids and job).  Past history has show that the size may
not change if that happens, or it will happen really infrequently (like
every 2-3 years).  So have fun and don't worry about it changing...

In particular, I hear that > 512Mb support is still flakey on CWSDPMI,
and there is that code sitting there that supports 4Mb pages ...