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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++
Subject: Re: Please describe how to use g++/gdb with COFF
Message-ID: <1004@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 25 Oct 89 09:09:36 GMT
References: <1444@aber-cs.UUCP>
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In article <1444@aber-cs.UUCP> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:

>There are two executable file formats: traditional AOUT and COFF. For
>some reason RMS has decided that GNU will use AOUT. COFF is actually
>vastly more flexible. There are also several alternative symbol table
>formats, as well. Time to link is a damn nuisance. COFF is a *good
>thing*.

Actually, there are even more of them -- SCO Xenix uses something that
they call x.out, and System V, Release 4.0 is supposed to use yet another
object file format (called Extended Object Format or something similar).
And I suspect there are some that I don't know about.

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          Robert Claeson      E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
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