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Thanks!

> In the end the question is does the DJGPP port also need that symbols in absolute
> sections shall not be relocated or not?  Is DJGPP/COFF in this sense different to
> SCO/COFF?  Probably this can only be answered by DJ.  If more help is needed please
> contact me.

I couldn't think of a good reason why we'd use absolute symbols
anyway, as they're usually used for hardware or OS hooks, and that
won't work for DJGPP as we relocate address "0" anyway.  ABS sections
would only be useful for constants but we don't use them for that I
think.