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Subject: Re: Native & Linux ELF support finally there...
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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 23:07:59 -1000 (HST)
From: "David Langford" <root@dihelix.com>
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From: "David Langford" <langfod@dihelix.com>
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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