Date: Sat, 03 Dec 1994 21:06:33 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: object file format change?
To: jdp AT polstra DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>> What do people think about changing the object file format from COFF to
>> ELF for V2.0?  We would be able to make all the configurations 100%
>> compatible with Linux to make things a lot easier, and get better
>> debugging and linking support too.
>
>You probably already know this, but just in case you don't:  If you
>switch to ELF, be sure to configure the compiler for "--with-stabs".
>Otherwise, you'll get the DWARF debugging format by default.  It's not
>supported by g++.  Configuring for the "stabs" format will allow
>debugging of both C and C++ programs, using gdb.
I assume that's what Linux uses, then?  [I've only had it for about a
week...]
>
>Other than that, ELF sounds OK to me.  It's a pretty versatile object
>format, much more so than COFF.
So why wasn't it used ab initio?

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