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In article <3842b8fe AT news DOT iglou DOT com>,
  Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> Moving DJGPP to ELF involves much more than reconfiguring Binutils.
> The stub loader needs to be rewritten, the entire debug support
> library needs to be enhanced to know about ELF debug info, several
> core development tools need major revisions, and all the toolkit
> libraries that use assembly need to be revised.  For such a formidable
> task, there's currently not enough motivation.

if you read my os faq you'd see its not about moving the entire DJGPP
platform to elf, its about compiling ELF support into the base utils so
objcopy, nm, objdump, ld etc support handling of ELF files. by default
its all still coff so poses no problems to djgpp since coff is its
default, it just has elf support so you can ld --target=i386-elf32 etc.


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