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Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:06:26 +0300
From: Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi>
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On 06/30/2011 11:33 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>     (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 !
Not as I really use online compiler feature, but my cross-compiler
RPMs (all latest versions including not yet announced 4.6.1) is
expected to work without problems in Linux distribution installed
currently on delorie.com. So hopefully there is no need to build a
new cross-compiler as one can simply install RPM packages.

>> 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

I guess that somebody may need to change something or gcc-4.6.X
may become last GCC release series that can be built as native
compiler for DJGPP due to limitations of COFF format used for DJGPP.

Andris