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Re: binutils
- From: Satheesan <satheesan2 at yahoo dot co dot in>
- To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: saresc at hotmail dot com, nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 12:04:06 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: binutils
> > > 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.
A COFF executable compiled in SCO with Motif is
running in RH 5.2 but not in higher versions.
Satheesan
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