Request: make coff2omf free

[Walter Bright]

John Reimer wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:33:11 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Yes. Elf (for object files, anyway) is not operating system dependent.
> I can see that this is true in theory only.  I don't recall
> seeing any practical examples of it.

Having implemented an Elf object file generator and dumper, I can say 
that there aren't any OS dependencies in it.

> Does the Windows OS care about object format once a binary is linked into
> an executable (ie, the OS exec loader)?

It cannot because it never sees the obj file.

> Is there an instance where object
> format might be of interest to the OS?

It's the linker's job to create an exe file in the format recognized by 
the OS. Just like the OS never sees source code, it doesn't see object 
files either.