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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:33:33 -0400
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	from Rugxulo on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:01:06 -0500)
Subject: Re: BinUtils (miscellaneous)
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>    (Note to DJ: I know you're probably VERY busy, and I think even an
> email or two to you bounced recently, ugh. So feel free to ignore
> this. And yes I see your online compiler thingy hack is offline too,
> heh.)

Yeah, I upgraded delorie.com and a few things stopped working.  I need
to build a newer compiler anyway, I think that one is still gcc 2.7 !

> Is this worth giving to BinUtils maintainers? (Apparently DJ is
> one!) Doubt it, but ... I already emailed the VMS dude (Tristan),
> and he seemed (very unsurprisingly) nonchalant. So whatever, perhaps
> somebody here can convince them if anybody agrees with me (doubt
> it).

Yeah, it would be up to the VMS maintainer, not me.  They get to
decide the destiny of their platforms ;-)

> around that. What I *can't* fix is it saying a spurious error message
> about "undefined symbol L0 not found". Only DJ himself (or somebody
> smarter than I am) could possibly decipher it. It's a new "change",
> and I'm not sure why!

I bet it's L0<ctrl-A><something :-)

> 4). Last I checked, --gc-sections didn't work for COFF at all.
> Apparently the COFF backend maintainer is ... DJ himself! But I know

COFF is a dumb container compared to ELF.

> he's always busy working. So I don't pester him much. Anyways,
> somebody at SourceWare (?) did add a rough patch (for 2.20) to add
> such support for MS / PE COFF recently. I didn't try it, but perhaps
> somebody here is more adventurous.

PE is *not* COFF, it's just similar to COFF.  It's pretty much its own
backend by now :-P