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From:	"Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have AT noavailemail DOT cmm>
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Subject:	Re: problem with AS from binutils 2.21.1
Date:	Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:37:07 -0500
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"DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote in message
news:201112292056 DOT pBTKu6q6005225 AT delorie DOT com...
> > > Just to be 101% clear about this: this is not a limitation of DJGPP's
> > > COFF, it's a general limitation of all 32-bit COFF formats.
> > Well. I'm also afraid that the same limitation will "kill" DJGPP port of
> > GCC.
>
> There is a way around this that Cygwin uses (PE is a coff-based
> format) if someone wants to port it to djgpp...
>

Why PE?  Why not ELF?

AISI, ELF is already supported by the GNU toolchain and was implemented for
DJELF.


Rod Pemberton

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