From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 1 23:11:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA20637 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:11:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA20629 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:11:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA00812; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:40:39 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id PAA10044; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:40:24 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980902154024.E606@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:40:24 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Smith , Terry Lambert Cc: John Birrell , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Standardizing a BSD/ELF ABI... References: <199809020111.SAA11738@usr01.primenet.com> <199809011842.SAA02674@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199809011842.SAA02674@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 06:42:12PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 1 September 1998 at 18:42:12 +0000, Mike Smith wrote: >> As a point of interest... >> >> Is FreeBSD ELF binary compatible with NetBSD/OpenBSD/BSDI ELF? >> >> If not, should we consider making changes for the 3.0 release >> to ensure as standard an ABI for BSD-based ELF systems as >> possible? > > You will have to convince the NetBSD people to stop randomly changing > their system calls first. John Birrell discussed this at some length > while I was there last week, and it's about at the point where we are > going to need an ABI shim for them. What about BSDI? Presumably they've been stable for a while. Having those two compatible would also be an incentive for the NetBSD people. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message