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- From: gnikl@informatik.uni-rostock.de (Gunther Nikl)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: GNU-C and Devpac
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 12:56:36 GMT
- Organization: University of Rostock
- Message-ID: <4f7j64$d01@taiwan.informatik.uni-rostock.de>
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- Fred Fish (fnf@fishpond.amigalib.com) wrote:
- > But we are *very* close to being ready to switch over to the
- > native object format. This is an often requested feature
- > and we are committed to making it happen. The nice thing about
-
- I do not request it. Is it really useful?
-
- > a BFD based toolchain is that you can have a prefered default
- > format (like native AmigaOS hunk format) while still reading
- > or writing other formats (a.out, ELF, etc) on demand.
-
- Yes, and the BFD based tools are 5 times bigger than the old
- a.out tools. Thanks for this improvement.
-
- Gunther
-