Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:09:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Loren Daniel Koss <loren@boingo.pciway.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is ELF? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810161806130.23893-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.981016155359.26621A-100000@boingo.pciway.com>
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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Loren Daniel Koss wrote: >I keep seeing people mention ELF. What is it? This is in the FAQ. ELF is a format for binary executables. FreeBSD is switching to ELF. FreeBSD used to use a format called "a.out" named for the filename that a compiler would output by default. Unless you are planning on upgrading very soon, you don't need to worry about ELF. Yet... Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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