From: "Andrew Crabtree" <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: COFF obsolete, let's port to Elf for version 3
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 13:37:05 -0700
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Bill Currie wrote in message <35629862 DOT FB32B700 AT taniwha DOT tssc DOT co DOT nz>...
>Just how offensive would it be to say "stuff section 1-17, backwards
>compatability is more important than strict ELF compliance, heck, it's
>only symbols"?
Dunno.  Possibly it wouldn't make any difference at all.  Worst case is that
a leading '-' has special
meaning in elf files and it would have references strewn all over binutils.

> It's not as if linking Linux object files with DJGPP
>ones will work anyway, due to the different syscall conventions
Whats the difference?  From the sample of code that goes through the pgcc
list  I got the impression that they are identical.