From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 9 07:08:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA07899 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 07:08:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kitsune.swcp.com (swcp.com [198.59.115.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA07894 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 07:08:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msommer@argotsoft.com) Received: from argotsoft.com (argotsoft.com [198.59.115.127]) by kitsune.swcp.com (8.8.8/1.2.3) with ESMTP id IAA11470; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:08:41 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from msommer@localhost) by argotsoft.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA02109; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:08:04 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from msommer) From: "Mark J. Sommer" Message-Id: <199810091408.IAA02109@argotsoft.com> Subject: Re: What is "ELF" ? In-Reply-To: from Didier Derny at "Oct 9, 98 01:52:00 pm" To: didier@omnix.net (Didier Derny) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:08:04 -0600 (MDT) Cc: os2_daemon@altavista.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 os2_daemon@altavista.net wrote: > > > > > I've seen so many ELFs around. > > Could anyone explain what's an ELF ? > > Thank's. > > according to the Webster: > ------------------------- > > 1- A small, often mischievous imaginary creature believed to possess > magical powers > 2- A mischievous child > 3- A dwarf. > > :-)))))) > > I also would like to know the meaning of "ELF". > > and in a few words the possibilities and the reason why it was so > important for FreBSD to move from a.out to elf. > > (I know that some people consider that this subject has been > debated too much on the mailing lists but I would like to know > why I have to tell my clients that the the applications I wrote several > years ago have problems with the new FreeBSD 3.0 and that I will have to > spend time to fix) I believe it stands for Executable and Linkable Format. You want to know more, go to http://www.wotsit.org/ and do a search on ELF. You'll be able to download the spec along with other executable file formats that show up with result set from the search. The spec is at ftp://ftp.intel.com/pub/tis/elf11g.zip. Don't know how definitive it is, because it surprises me that its hosted by Intel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message