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Subject: Re: LD from binutils 2.26 crashes when -ffunction-sections +
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> Last I checked, DJ was still the COFF maintainer.

Or at least the DJGPP COFF maintainer.

> But it's not truly fair to expect him to do any heavy (or really
> any) maintenance as he has other priorities. So if he doesn't want
> to do it, we have to respect his decision.

Frankly, it's been so long since I've needed to touch that code, that
I've forgotten what's in it.  Once DOS stopped changing (i.e. no new
releases ;) there was little need to change the DOS linker.

> Cygwin and MinGW are still "tier two" while DJGPP isn't even on the
> map.  Maybe they throw us a bone every so often, I dunno, but DJGPP
> overall is not important enough (anymore), sadly.

It's important to the people who want it to be important.  You don't
need someone else's permission to care about it or work on it, you
just do it.  I started DJGPP because *I* wanted it, and I didn't have
to wait for someone else to decide it was important...

> I know none of this is giving much hope, but anyways ....

There's always hope, as long as someone wants there to be :-)