Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:09:08 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, dervish@bantu.cl.msu.edu, (Daniel C. Sobral) <dcs@newsguy.com> Subject: Re: What are the advantages of ELF kernels? Message-ID: <XFMail.990113000908.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <199901122228.PAA06757@usr09.primenet.com>
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On 12-Jan-99 Terry Lambert wrote: >> I might be misleading here, but I'd think the Number One reason for >> changing to Elf is the lack of availability of binutils for a.out. >> Support for a.out has been abandoned in binutils (gcc tools). So, it >> seriously impacted on FreeBSD's ability to upgrade the compiler >> toolchain. > 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. I do hope that the transition of the new binutils have already taken? Or is going to take place before we fork off? (It might be that I missed some commitlogs, but I try to keep up =) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven A veil of smoke is what I am, asmodai(at)wxs.nl I wait and I wait... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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