Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 23:07:59 -1000 (HST) From: "David Langford" <langfod@dihelix.com> To: sos@FreeBSD.org Cc: langfod@dihelix.com, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Native & Linux ELF support finally there... Message-ID: <199603110908.XAA20972@caliban.dihelix.com> In-Reply-To: <199603110842.JAA18791@ra.dkuug.dk> from "sos@FreeBSD.org" at Mar 11, 96 09:42:15 am
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>> 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... Hmm. Actually I was thinking more of your latter statement. I guess it boils to: what are the new features out the Elf format. Not necessarily versus a.out but just what the nifty feature of Elf are. Thanks. -David Langford langfod@dihelix.com
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