From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: COFF obsolete, let's port to Elf for version 3
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 20:52:30 +0100
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Andrew Crabtree writes:
>GCC is IMO the problem child.  For instance, rewriting the stuff to 
>generate labels,  or getting rid of pre-pending underscores.  

I know that Linux doesn't use the underscore prefix with ELF objects,
but surely this is just a convention of what the compiler has been
configured to output, and not a specific requirement of the object
format?

If ELF really doesn't allow these underscores, I think that would be a
very strong reason to continue using COFF. Changing this convention
would break every djgpp program that contains external assembler files,
which is IMHO an unacceptable degree of incompatibility...


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