From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M)
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Subject: Re: COFF obsolete, let's port to Elf for version 3
Date: 20 May 1998 13:53:49 GMT
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Shawn Hargreaves (Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk) wrote:
> 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...

I'm not that convinced that this incompatibility is unacceptable. If
this ELF-thing is being worked on it will be for DJGPP-v3 I guess, and
considering the incompatibilities between v1 and v2 this
incompatibility might be justified. Changing "every DJGPP program that
contains external assembler files" will then be necessary of course.

Just my thoughts.
-- 
Groeten, Michel.        http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter
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