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To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation 
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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:14:41 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199701220410.UAA08396@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Jason Thorpe writes:
: ...ELF has one _major_ losing, IMO... No tag that specifies the ABI.
: You see "ELF for SPARC".  That's it.  That's a bummer.

There are nonstandard ways around this...

There is also OLF, which is ELF + a couple of things.

The only reason I need ELF on my system is to run Linux or Solaris x86
binaries...

Warner