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On 28 Nov 1999, Mark & Candice White wrote:

> Just out of curiosity why are you using COFF not ELF?
> ELF has object, and linked forms like COFF, but also a
> dynamically linkable form too. According to Dark Fiber:
> http://www.mega-tokyo.com/os/os-faq.html
> recompiling the dos bintools to work with ELF is not to hard.

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.

More details about this can be found in section 22.21 of the DJGPP FAQ
list.