From: "Andrew Crabtree" <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: COFF obsolete, let's port to Elf for version 3
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 11:26:27 -0700
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Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote in message ...

>Somebody must start enabling ELF in Binutils and in GDB and I doubt that's
a
>simple task.
Binutils should be pretty easy (famous last words :).  I looked through it
and it seems straightforward.  GCC is IMO the problem child.  For instance,
rewriting the stuff to generate labels,  or getting rid of pre-pending
underscores.  That, plus any enhancements for the new sections that elf
supports.  And then there would be dwarf 2 debugging as well I think.  I
just don't see it being worth it.  Once we (I) get collect2 working for
djgpp we should be much better off with both fixed excepttion handling and
proper template instantiation.