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A bit premature
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 (guest, #25547) [Link]
Last I looked, Windows and Tru64 Unix (possibly also other proprietary Unices).