Re: [h-e-w] Current word on binaries

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> Date: 18 Feb 2004 00:13:32 +0000
> 
> 
> Linking with binmode.obj has been the way we have avoided being bitten
> by MSVC in the past, but earlier versions of GCC defaulted to binary
> mode and did not contain a binmode.obj (or .o) so that was made
> conditional in the makefile. More recent versions of GCC now act more
> like Windows compilers, defaulting to text mode and providing a
> binmode.o to link with if you want binary mode as the default.

So you are saying that the startup module supplied with GCC switched
from binary to text mode as the default?