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> > Hm. I could believe it might be significantly different from the formats > > we use on other systems, but man-years of work? Is it *that* different? > Its different enough to require two or three people working for six or > nine months. That's just the binutils side. That doesn't include MS's > special debugging formats, or the gcc changes needed to really fit in > to MS's world, or doing gdb. The debugging format and GDB would certainly add a bunch of extra work, but I really don't know how much. > You need to link against microsoft libraries to be able to create an > executable that runs. They're COFF, so it shouldn't be too much problem there. > > I agree it's a huge market. But I'm always skeptical about any numbers > Prime didn't believe the impact of workstations. ??? We're not workstation vendors (at least not myself, and I doubt that Cygnus and the others on the list are). What does this really matter ? PC's or not don't bother me, and Microsoft hasn't just automatically pushed everything else out. Erich -- Erich Stefan Boleyn \__ E-mail (preferred): <erich@uruk.org> Mathematician, Software Engineer \__ home #: +1 (503) 226-0741 Mad Genius wanna-be, CyberMuffin \_ phys loc: 924 S.W. 16th Ave, #202 Motto: "I'll live forever or die trying" \ Portland, OR, USA 97205