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Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 12:05:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Daniel Borca <dborca AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: DJGPP ELF
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--- DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> 
> > COFF: Hello World C++ is about 400kb
> > ELF : Hello World C++ is about 16kb (PIE) - 20kb (non-PIE)
> >       plus 1MB the shared libraries (libc, libm, libgcc, libstdc++)
> 
> That's not COFF vs ELF, that shared vs nonshared.

True!  That's why DXE3 was introduced.  s/COFF/DJGPP\ COFF/g

> You can do shared libraries with COFF too, we just don't support it.

Hmm... never knew that.  Is the technology still alive?  Or was
abandoned in favor of ELF?  Googling for it reveals only ancient
threads.


Regards,
Daniel Borca

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