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Article #194Re: Please describe how to use g++/gdb with COFF
From: Robert Claeson
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 09:09
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 09:09
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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.
--
Robert Claeson E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
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