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Re: binutils

From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
To: saresc at hotmail dot com, nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com,binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 10:09:55 -0700
Subject: Re: binutils
References: <F137Y9sxusY5HgComKb00006d70@hotmail.com> <20020514091109.A5895@lucon.org> <siznz2n056.fsf@daffy.airs.com>

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:51:17AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> 
> > You can't convert coff executable to ELF. It is not going to work without
> > extensive changes in binutils.
> 
> Why not?  Provided it is statically linked, and is laid out in memory
> to only require a couple of program segments.
> 
> You can't convert a COFF object to ELF, but why can't you convert an
> executable?

I don't know any Linux supports the ABI used by COFF. You may run COFF
executables with SCO emulation. But I don't think you can run an ELF
executable converted from COFF under Linux.


H.J.

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