From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mark E." To: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: .gnu.linkonce COFF support Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:42:00 -0000 Message-id: <199907132141.VAA91050@out4.ibm.net> X-SW-Source: 1999-q3/msg00185.html Hello Ian and the list, Some questions about possibilities for DJGPP COFF. Would enabling .gnu.linkonce.* for DJGPP COFF improve template support much over what weak symbols do already? This would require enabling the long section name feature (> 8 characters) , but it can be turned on by one line. And from what I can gather from reading the source, existing object files would still be readable by the new binutils binaries produced (ld, objdump, etc). without this feature. Did I read correctly? And also new object files using just short names produced with the long section name feature would be readable by old binutils binaries? Mark --- Mark Elbrecht, snowball3@bigfoot.com http://snowball.frogspace.net/