Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:25:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the advantages of ELF kernels? Message-ID: <199901130025.RAA15418@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199901122238.JAA08808@cimlogic.com.au> from "John Birrell" at Jan 13, 99 09:38:35 am
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> > 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. Cool. At least FreeBSD-Native software won't have the same problem that some Linux-Native software has had. I had thought the decision was to delay the upgrade until after the 3.0 release. I'm glad I was wrong. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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