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Re: Cygwin support
> The real heart of the matter though is that most of the people that
> contribute to gcc aren't themselves users of these targets, and so it's
> only natural that they don't know about or care about the status of any
> target-specific issues. What has worried me lately however is how much
> ELF-specific design has been creeping into gcc, notably in the areas of
> plugins and LTO. If this trend continues it will result in the PECOFF
> targets becoming even more of a backwater than they already are, which I
> find to be a sad future for the 90%.
If you really want to solve this then you could always stop using PE/COFF.
The ARM EABI (and in particular the arm-none-symbianelf target) demonstrates
how this can be done. Basically the toolchain generates ELF objects,
executables and DSOs, then you feed them through a postlinker to generate
target (PE/COFF) images.
Paul