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From: randy@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Longshot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: Questions regarding: Mach Release 1.0 for the Multimax
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.165913.29305@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 91 16:59:13 GMT
References: <14033@encore.Encore.COM> <3507@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <14083@encore.Encore.COM> <3649@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <14091@encore.Encore.COM>
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boykin@encore.com (Joseph Boykin) writes:

>In article <3649@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
>|> In article <14083@encore.Encore.COM>, boykin@encore.com (Joseph Boykin) writes:
>|> |> The answer is definately COFF since that is what all of Encore's compilers
>|> |> and linkers for the Multimax use.
>|> 
>|> Hmpph!

>Why would you care what object file format we use?  Unless you have
>another machine with the same instruction set (unlikely on an NS32K based
>system!) with a different object file format, what's the difference?

Well, there is some development software, particularly GNU tools, that does
not work well with COFF (some not at all). Since, to my knowledge, you
(Encore) do not have an ANSI-compliant C compiler or any C++ compiler at all,
we on the user-end must use these third-party tools. The g++ program cannot
handle COFF at all; you must use an additional utilitie that makes source-level
debugging nearly impossible by munging many of the symbols in the table. But
all this aside, the problem is not so much that COFF is used, but that the
COFF used on Encore systems does not gel with the COFF patches given to adapt
g++. The patches work with other COFF systems, but not Encore.

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