Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 16:39:54 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Chirayu Krishnappa <chirayu AT radiolink DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Function Sizes
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On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Chirayu Krishnappa wrote:

> Also, I hear a lot that elf binaries r better. I want to use them. I
> could'nt find references to elf in the faq. If gcc can generate such object
> files and I use them, will I be missing out on anything. Also, can I link
> together, elf & coff object files together?

It's a very non-trivial task.  You need to reconfigure and rebuild 
Binutils and the debuggers (assuming you want debugging) so that they 
support ELF.  Then you need to change the stub loader (the 2KB-long DOS 
program that sets things up for DJGPP before it passes control to the 
COFF image) so that it knows about ELF.  I'm not sure if you can mix COFF 
and ELF, but I think you can't; if I'm right, you will have to recompile 
all the libraries so that they are in ELF format.