From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 11 16:02:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21598 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:02:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21538 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:02:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id PAA24101; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:59:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA05104; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:59:45 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id QAA07210; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:59:44 -0700 Message-ID: <369A9070.F9DCC718@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:59:44 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Kargl CC: Matthew Dillon , dervish@bantu.cl.msu.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the advantages of ELF kernels? References: <199901112152.NAA25190@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Kargl wrote: > > According to Matthew Dillon: > > > > But, most importantly, there has been a general trend towards ELF in the > > last decade and getting on that bandwagon is important, especially if we > > want to maintain native compatibility with Linux and other operating > > systems. The importance of maintaining compatibility cannot be > > underestimated. > > Actually, hasn't FSF dropped support/development of a.out tools. > So, if FreeBSD wants to continue to use FSF compiler technology, > then we are compelled to move forward to ELF. And that is the strongest reason to move to ELF: because everyone else did. Being able to keep up with other developments in the world of development tools, not becoming a backwater, is an important point. This will allow FreeBSD to be a first-class Ada development system, using GNATS. ;^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message