binutils

[H . J . Lu]

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.