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From: Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: problem with AS from binutils 2.21.1
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 13:47:55 -0800 (PST)
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Hi,

On Jan 2, 12:06 am, "Charles Sandmann" <cwsd DOT  DOT  DOT  AT earthlink DOT net> wrote:
>
> > Why not ELF?   AISI, ELF is already supported by the
> > GNU toolchain and was implemented for DJELF.

ELF does have a lot more upstream support, but extending COFF is much
much easier (I presume).

> The djelf code is available as a user add-on.  It is GPL and
> can be used if desired.  It is not copyright compatible with
> the DJGPP project and so can't be merged into the CVS
> tree without appropriate copyright assignment.

I never heard that and haven't checked. Are you sure? Which parts
aren't compatible? The stub? (I don't have it installed locally [yet],
so I haven't messed with it recently.) ELF can't be too too hard as
even MOSS could handle it back in the day.

> Without a rewrite or assignment it can't be used for
> commercial use.  Someone could ask Daniel for
> permission/assignment.

I know D3X was non-commercial, but if DJELF is GPL it should allow it.
Dunno about specific parts, though. Anyways, Borca hasn't been around
in ages, though a quick search shows him available in other places
(ipheth). I guess somebody "could" ask him to relicense, but I'm
highly pessimistic.    :-/

Anyways, did DJELF support debugging? unexec? I know fixing GAS + LD
are the only main priorities to building GCC 4.7.0, but other stuff
probably doesn't have enough capable volunteers.