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> > There's a trick for this that most COFF systems switched to, to
> > increase the relocation limit.  IIRC a count of 0xffff means "use
> > other count" which is 32 bits.
> 
> What would it take for DJGPP to use the same trick?

Mostly just a binutils change, although anything inherent in djgpp
that reads object (not exe's) would need to know about it also.