Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:38:35 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the advantages of ELF kernels? Message-ID: <199901122238.JAA08808@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199901122228.PAA06757@usr09.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jan 12, 1999 10:28:35 pm"
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Terry Lambert wrote: > It's also a pity that ELF objects generated on a 3.0 system won't > be usable on a 3.1 (or later, if things go as slow as they have been, > lately) system, since binutils 2.9.1 made a gratuitous change in > the object file layout. Too bad FreeBSD didn't go to 2.9.1 and skip > over the bad format entirely, but whatever. We shipped binutils 2.9.1 with 3.0-RELEASE. We upgraded not long before 3.0-RELEASE was due. The upgrade caused compatibility problems on alpha, but obviously wasn't noticed on i386. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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