Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:47:21 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a.out.5 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001161744280.5559-100000@smarter.than.nu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0001162038100.7534-100000@rac9.wam.umd.edu>
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, James Howard wrote: > Before asking my libelf question on -hackers, I spent some time reading > elf.5 and a.out.5. At the bottom of a.out.5 in the BUGS section is the > comment: > > New binary file formats may be supported in the future, and they > probably > will not be compatible at any level with this ancient format. > > As ELF is now supported, this comment is a bit out of date. I didn't > submit a PR because it didn't seem that important and I didn't know what > it should say anyway. :) I think the best course of action is to delete this paragraph and add a reference to elf(5) in SEE ALSO. --- a.out.5.old Sun Jan 16 17:45:37 2000 +++ a.out.5 Sun Jan 16 17:45:57 2000 @@ -436,7 +436,8 @@ .Xr nlist 3 , .Xr core 5 , .Xr link 5 , -.Xr stab 5 +.Xr stab 5 , +.Xr elf 5 .Sh HISTORY The .Pa a.out.h @@ -457,7 +458,3 @@ Nobody seems to agree on what .Em bss stands for. -.Pp -New binary file formats may be supported in the future, -and they probably will not be compatible at any level -with this ancient format. -- Brian Buchanan brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU -------------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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