From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 2 09:08:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA14207 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:08:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shire.domestic.de (kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de [194.233.216.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA14159 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:08:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de) Received: from yacht.domestic.de (yacht.domestic.de [192.168.1.4]) by shire.domestic.de (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA26518 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 18:06:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from joki@shire.domestic.de) From: Joachim Kuebart Received: (from joki@localhost) by yacht.domestic.de (8.9.1/8.8.7) id SAA00372 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 18:09:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from joki@shire.domestic.de) Message-Id: <199809021609.SAA00372@yacht.domestic.de> Subject: Re: XFree86 and ELF In-Reply-To: <199809020723.AAA22823@usr02.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Sep 2, 98 07:23:23 am" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 18:06:17 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > The patch is not useful unless you are micro-tracking the FreeBSD -current > sources, which the XFree86 project is not. Parts of the patch remove a programming error (failure to include and/or ) and thus are at least not useless. > The eventual FreeBSD ABI should (hopefully) match at least two of the > other BSD 4.4 derivative ABI's. Incidentally, the ELF-relevant part of the patch is cloned from NetBSD with little to no modification. > In an ideal world, given that the Solaris ABI changes at a slower rate > than all others, FreeBSD (and the other BSD's) would adopt the Solaris > ABI for ABI compatability... > > And then monkeys fly out my butt. cu Jo --------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve Joachim Kuebart Tel: +49 711 653706 Oh god, god... My tongue is asleep and Germany my teeth itch. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message