From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Why COFF ??
Date: 4 Jun 1997 08:22:02 GMT
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Peter Zijlstra (peter AT mcs DOT nl) writes:
> Hi,
> 
> Why does the DJGPP port of GNU CC use the COFF object format ?
> Is it possible to use like say the .out format linux uses, with GDB.
> Because I get the shits of not being able to trace into my .h files :(

I thought Linux used a format called ELF?

The way I understand it, .out files are primitive, COFF (Common Object
File Format) more advanced, and ELF (Executable Linkable Format) more still.
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