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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: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:40:44 -0500
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org> wrote in message
news:83d3b5ubmf DOT fsf AT gnu DOT org...
> > 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.

"There is a way around this that Cygwin uses (PE is a coff-based format)
[...]"

> He suggested to make COFF used by DJGPP work around the
> 64K limitation using the same technique as in the PE format.

Well, I can only respond to what he actually wrote, and not what he,
nor you, thought he said.  It's not logical to conclude that a fix was
present in a coff-based, PE format, used in Cygwin, given what
he wrote and the way he wrote it.


Rod Pemberton