Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 09:42:15 +0100 (MET) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: langfod@dihelix.com (David Langford) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Native & Linux ELF support finally there... Message-ID: <199603110842.JAA18791@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199603110816.WAA18031@caliban.dihelix.com> from "David Langford" at Mar 10, 96 10:16:24 pm
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In reply to David Langford who wrote:
>
> Most cool. Thanks for the work.
Your'e welcome :)
> Now a side note: for those of us with our heads in the closet are there
> any pointers to the wonders of why Elf exists? i.e. what makes it
> so great that I should bow down before it?
For FreeBSD bins ? nothing as fas as I can tell, It helped Linux
clean up their shared libs mess, we did that right in the first place :)
(who was it that said think first then act :)
Besides that there are a lot of possibilities in ELF like multible
text segments, specific debugging info etc etc. But none of
that gives us anything in the short run.
I see no immediate need for us to convert to ELF format, but it gives
us some interesting possibilities to be able to run them...
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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