Re: Re: New maintainer for EMX?

Ilya Zakharevich wrote (about me):

> My conjecture is that his work was funded up to some moment, then
> the funds went away.

My work on emx was never funded.

> [Bob Eager wrote:]
> > Was it a change in object file format that would generate a lot of
> > work?
> 
> I do not see any need for such change.

For C++, support of section .gnu.linkonce is very important.

> What one needs is working DLLs.  Nobody cares which compiler created
> them, and in what format.  Using gcc 2.8.1 (for build of these DLLs)
> is a reasonable decision.

Code generated by GCC 2.8 (for C++ source) is not binary compatible
with code generated by later versions.

Eberhard