Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 10:40:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Leonard Ong <Leonard_Ong@iname.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Binary Format Message-ID: <19980906104035.V606@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199809051753.AAA17373@situ.rad.net.id>; from Leonard Ong on Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 12:45:01AM %2B0700 References: <199809051753.AAA17373@situ.rad.net.id>
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On Sunday, 6 September 1998 at 0:45:01 +0700, Leonard Ong wrote: > Hallo, > > Please let me know what's the previous and current freeBSD binaries format ? FreeBSD 1.X and 2.X use the traditional UNIX a.out format. 3.0, which comes out next month, will prefer ELF, but will also understand a.out. > What's the superiority of ELF ? It handles shared libraries better. > is DOS' ELF ? No, DOS uses two toy proprietary formats (.com and .exe). I believe that NT has progressed to the obsolete UNIX COFF format, but I'm not sure. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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