Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 09:31:15 +0100
From: terra AT diku DOT dk
To: dj AT ctron DOT com, babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: object file format change?

   Date: Sat, 3 Dec 94 13:24:20 EST
   From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
   Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu

   > What do people think about changing the object file format from COFF to ELF
   > for V2.0?...The drawback is that all existing libraries will have to be
   > recompiled, but is that such a bad thing?

   Conversion to version 2 is going to involve a certain amount of pain, but it
   sounds like it will be worth it.  I doubt if I would have noticed the object
   file format change if you didn't mention it.  Wasn't something else used
   before COFF?  I found that change transparent.

I didn't -- I had to redo Emacs' dumping.  Right now I can think of
three programs that would need some major hacking if the format was
changed: Emacs, my Full Screen Debugger, and V2's djasm.

So I don't think a change would be a good thing.

Morten