Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/05/15/10:42:08
"Paul Derbyshire" <pderbysh AT usa DOT net> wrote:
> I say it's time to dump coff and use elf for djgpp 3.0.
>
> Coff problems:
> * Glitches with nested functions, see "GCC bug?" thread.
Are you sure it isn't a plain bug and nothing more?
> * Template instantiation problems.
Yes it shows the obsolecense of COFF: The developers designed mechanism to
solve it in ELF files but not in COFF.
> * Limit on debug info forces some people to compile some programs with no
> debug info.
Forget it. You can use STABs debug info in a COFF file. COFF debug info doesn't
have any relation with the COFF format.
There are a group of persons developing something like DJGPP (they are in a
VERY "green" stage) to use ELF under Linux/DOS and Win32. I saw the package and
it seems to work OK. Perhaps somebody can take the ELF loader from it. It could
be a first step in this direction.
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