From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 22 15:30:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA05146 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:30:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA05139 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:30:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id PAA14958 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:30:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA22344; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:12:58 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701222312.QAA22344@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:12:58 -0700 (MST) Cc: jdp@polstra.com, dg@root.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199701220410.UAA08396@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Jan 21, 97 08:10:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I don't know what architectural problems you're referring to. There > > aren't any in the object format itself that seem severe to me. > > ...ELF has one _major_ losing, IMO... No tag that specifies the ABI. > You see "ELF for SPARC". That's it. That's a bummer. > > But, that's really my only gripe with it :-) That's actually supposed to be a feature: it is not permitted to have more than one ABI. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.