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Re: why are stl template classes not mangled as other classes and templates


On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 06:39:09PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> > joking aside, we need to generate ELF object files for running on windows.
> 
>   OK, you are now attempting something very very wrong indeed.  The win32
> version of the assembler will not generate ELF files, and even if it did,
> windows cannot make any use of the ELF format, it uses PE-COFF.  And the
> output file format has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not the
> symbols have leading underscores, so claiming that you have to use
> -fleading-underscores because you need to generate ELF files is a
> non-sequitur.

Please give them a little credit.  I would assume they're using an
i386-elf compiler and have some mechanism of their own to make the ELF
files run.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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