From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jan 16 17:48:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from soda.csua.Berkeley.edu (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1D6F14DCB for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:48:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from ida-89-77.Reshall.Berkeley.EDU (ida-89-77.Reshall.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.89.77]) by soda.csua.Berkeley.edu (8.8.8/) via ESMTP id RAA09996; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:47:21 -0800 (PST) env-from (brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:47:21 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" X-Sender: brian@smarter.than.nu To: James Howard Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a.out.5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 As ELF is now supported, this comment is a bit out of date.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