From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 16 20:54:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA23623 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 20:54:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from singularity.enigami.com (singularity.enigami.com [208.140.182.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA23618 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 20:54:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ckempf@singularity.enigami.com) Received: (from ckempf@localhost) by singularity.enigami.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA15050; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 23:53:27 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: So, what does ELF give me? X-Copyright: Copyright (C) 1998 Cory Kempf. All Rights Reserved X-PGP-Fingerprint: 191E 2FB7 E27D 76C3 8E79 4D26 2B3B B20F 2A9C 1E1A X-PGP-Keyloc: ; finger ckempf@enigami.com From: Cory Kempf Date: 16 Oct 1998 23:53:27 -0400 Message-ID: Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, So I know that ELF is a much newer object file format than a.out, and that it is supposed to somehow have better support for shared libraries, the rest of the known universe is using it, and that it is supposed to be somehow better and we are somehow supposed to be able to do more things. So, what are they? What can I, as a developer, do with ELF that I couldn't with a.out? What does it buy me? How will this difference impact me? Is there a discussion of this on line somewhere? Thanks, +C -- Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message