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Subject: Re: Native & Linux ELF support finally there...
To: langfod@dihelix.com (David Langford)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 09:42:15 +0100 (MET)
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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.