From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 20 18:59:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C5B14C89 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:59:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA03037; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 11:28:54 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA70909; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 11:28:53 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 11:28:53 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Greg Quinlan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc - COFF binaries? Message-ID: <19990821112852.L14964@freebie.lemis.com> References: <011401beeaf3$7f892740$5214010a@qmpgmc.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <011401beeaf3$7f892740$5214010a@qmpgmc.ac.uk>; from Greg Quinlan on Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 11:05:14AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 20 August 1999 at 11:05:14 +0100, Greg Quinlan wrote: > > Anyone: > > Does "gcc" support COFF (can produce - common object file format) >binaries? Well, yes, on the appropriate platform. Since FreeBSD doesn't use COFF, there's no way for any compiler to generate COFF for FreeBSD. > I could only see COFF mentioned in reference to "gdb" That should probably be removed. What do you want to do? You can get, say, an SCO UNIX version of gcc which generates COFF, but I'm not sure why you'd want to do so. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message