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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
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> From: "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have AT noavailemail DOT cmm>
> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:37:07 -0500
> 
> "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?

DJ did not suggest to use PE in DJGPP.  He suggested to make COFF used
by DJGPP work around the 64K limitation using the same technique as in
the PE format.