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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 19:09:10 -0500
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"DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote in message
news:201112310807 DOT pBV87ZQo001811 AT delorie DOT com...
> > > DJ did not suggest to use PE in DJGPP.
> >
> > "There is a way around this that Cygwin uses (PE is a coff-based format)
> > [...]"
>
> Please don't cut out the important parts when quoting me.

Porting or not porting has no bearing on the availability
of a solution within the Cygwin code.  It's there.  So, I didn't.

> The full quote was:
>
>   "There is a way around this that Cygwin uses (PE is a coff-based
>    format) if someone wants to port it to djgpp..."
>
> [...]  so the only reasonable interpretation of what I actually said
> was "if someone wants to port the way around it to DJGPP's COFF code".
>

You said the solution to the problem is to use Cygwin's solution which is to
use a coff-derived PE format, if someone wants to port the PE code from
Cygwin to DJGPP.

> The part in parens is a side-comment pointing out that Cygwin uses PE
> file formats, and PE is a COFF variant, hence showing the relevence to
> DJGPP's COFF limitation.  It's in parens because it is *not* part of
> the main sentence.

The "side-comment" directly clarifies what the "a way around this" means,
otherwise it wouldn't be needed, or it'd be another sentence.

> Please use common sense when listening to what people say.

Accept what others have to say.  Please write what you mean.

> Everyone else interpreted my comment right.

Eli constitutes "everyone" now?

I guess it's truly time to unsubscribe.  DJGPP is clearly dead.


Rod Pemberton