From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 27 14:18:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17820 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 14:18:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17789 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 14:18:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18551; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 14:18:34 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd018530; Sun Sep 27 14:18:30 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA29638; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 14:18:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809272118.OAA29638@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: xanim and linuxELF.o To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 21:18:21 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brian@worldcontrol.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199809270901.LAA20240@gratis.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Sep 27, 98 11:01:36 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] 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 > > produces working code. Are elf objects interchangable in this way among > > all elf systems? Is this supposed to work? > > Only if there are no syscalls. Or proxied system calls, or other use of system specific manifest constants from header files. I would be very happy to see FreeBSD adopt manifest values for POSIX (and in some cases, extended) ioctl/fcntl/etc. arguments that were identical to the IABI values (Intel UNIX, Solaris, UnixWare). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message