A bit premature [LWN.net]

A bit premature

Posted Mar 28, 2008 22:43 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: A bit premature by landley
Parent article: Striking gold in binutils

GNU ld *does* only one thing: it links. It doesn't actually know much 
about object file formats (as you doubtless know, that job is left to 
libbfd).

ld's real problem is *age*: its design predates ELF, and it shows. Its 
design meshes quite well with COFF, but who uses that naymore?

(And I use the ihex ld target on a fairly regular basis. Maybe there are 
other ways to do the same thing, but it works for me...)

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Who uses COFF?

Posted Apr 5, 2008 14:22 UTC (Sat) by anton (subscriber, #25547) [Link]

Last I looked, Windows and Tru64 Unix (possibly also other proprietary Unices).