Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 10:44:26 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: COFF obsolete, let's port to Elf for version 3
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On Wed, 20 May 1998, Andrew Crabtree wrote:

> 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.

I would suggest to ask Ian Taylor, the Binutils maintainer.