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Re: Document / Script for automating cross-compiler build

To: Christopher Bahns <chris at bahns dot com>, David Williams <david at capgo dot com>
Subject: Re: Document / Script for automating cross-compiler build
From: "Matt Minnis" <mminnis at prefres dot com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:08:51 -0500
Cc: crossgcc at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <399862F4.2DDDFA03@bahns.com><399872C3.466B48A@capgo.com>

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> > Why should I prefer elf to coff for an m68k embedded target?

Because the commercial debugging vendors don't support Coff at all.  Elf or 
IEEE695 (some) are the formats that they use.  Elf provides more complete 
dbug information than Coff.

I am not sure what the other reasons are.

Hope this helped.

Matt Minnis

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