Request: make coff2omf free

Gregor Richards Richards at codu.org
Sun Feb 25 14:41:28 PST 2007


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

BFD (the binary format library for binutils, the linker and utilities 
that GCC uses), supports at least: a.out, b.out, COFF, ECOFF, ELF32, 
ELF64, Mach-O, NLM32, PE, PEF, PEI, VAX, EVAX, and several other binary 
formats.

It uses whichever one is appropriate for the OS.

  - Gregor Richards



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