From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 5 18:12:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03921 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 18:12:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03916 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 18:11:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA16333; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 10:40:37 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA25244; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 10:40:36 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980906104035.V606@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 10:40:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Leonard Ong , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Binary Format References: <199809051753.AAA17373@situ.rad.net.id> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199809051753.AAA17373@situ.rad.net.id>; from Leonard Ong on Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 12:45:01AM +0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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