From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 19 19:49:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA22818 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 19:49:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA22812 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 19:49:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA14576; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 19:41:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd014572; Wed Aug 20 02:40:56 1997 Message-ID: <33FA585D.167EB0E7@whistle.com> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 19:37:17 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Polstra CC: grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Please Help Me Understand dlopen()] References: <199708182246.PAA04812@austin.polstra.com> <22405.871954857@time.cdrom.com> <19970819140010.04999@lemis.com> <199708190543.WAA07143@austin.polstra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Polstra wrote: > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > On a more serious note, since BSDI has now switched to ELF, aren't we > > going to have to do so anyway? > > I didn't realize they had switched, but given that ... > > Yes, we will have to switch to ELF. But we would have had to anyway -- > for the same reasons BSDI had to. > John, what are the chances of being able to link a binary from mixed a.out and elf .o files? And what are the chances of being able to generate both types with just a single switch differnt in the command line? If we could do that then a change-over would become much more painless. We could do parts at a time.