From: d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk (David Vrabel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: COFF obsolete, let's port to Elf for version 3
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 06:51:59 GMT
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"Paul Derbyshire" <pderbysh AT usa DOT net> wrote:

>I say it's time to dump coff and use elf for djgpp 3.0.
>
>Coff problems:
>  * Template instantiation problems.
Surely this is to do with the compilier and not the format of the
executable?
GCC 2.8.? doesn't have the template instantiation problems that
earlier versions had.

Though better dynamically linked libraries would be a good idea (to
reduce hard disk usage) but I've heard that DOS is not a good enough
OS to handle them properly.

David.

David Vrabel  d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk
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