[Freemint-list] gcc 6.2 for Ataris brown edition

[Jo Even Skarstein]

On fr., 2016-12-30 at 11:11 +1000, Miro Kropáček wrote:


> Well, that's what the conversion tool is for. Do you create
> FreeMiNT-only binary (think of all the command line tools from Linux),
> let it as ELF. It's a generic Atari app (think of zView)? Convert it
> to PRG.

What is the advantage of running ELF binaries under MiNT? What problem
does this solve? If there is a tool to convert ELF executables to TOS
executables, why bother with ELF in MiNT?

Jo Even