>Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 19:15:47 -0500 (EST)
>From: Jeff Mitchell <skeezix@skeleton.org>

>	and is supposed to work fine under Linux, etc. Anyway, I have nasm
>compiling the assembly modules and outputting COFF format object files (as
>this is the format used by gcc, no?). The linker hates the assembled
>output, however:

No.  The i386 port uses a modified a.out object file format.  AFAIK
all ports now use either a.out or ELF.
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