Request: make coff2omf free

John Reimer terminal.node at gmail.com
Sat Feb 24 23:30:36 PST 2007


On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:33:11 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:

> 
> Why does Mingw do coff on Win32, while the gcc tools everywhere else do 
> elf? This makes no sense to me.


It seems that elf is an object /and/ executable format, so it requires
support from the OS somehow.  

Whereas coff is merely an object format and PE appears to be windows
executable format.

That may be the reason that mingw went coff instead, even it it isn't
compatible with MS coff objects.

-JJR



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