From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 28 18:16: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF3837B422 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:15:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (marcus@shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBT2FP528725; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:15:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: What exactly does the "ELF" tag mean? From: Joe Clarke To: S Roberts Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Date: 28 Dec 2001 21:16:06 -0500 Message-Id: <1009592167.30665.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 20:18, S Roberts wrote: > Hello, > Simple question, I'm sure. > > What exactly is this "ELF" tag I keep coming across when reviewing software > (eg: MySQL 3.23.47 FreeBSD 4.4 ELF (Intel))designed to run on FreeBSD? ELF is the application binary format used by FreeBSD >= 3.0 (as well as other OSes). ELF stands for Executable and Linking Format. The previous binary type was a.out. Windows, I believe, uses COFF. Joe > > Be patient with me, okay? Thanks > > Regards, > > S Roberts > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message