From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 25 3:54:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED27214D32 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 03:54:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id UAA03842; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:50:28 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36D538C4.EE2D93C3@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:49:24 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dom Mitchell Cc: Konstantin Chuguev , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF default format vs. a.out default binary name References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dom Mitchell wrote: > > On 23 February 1999, Konstantin Chuguev proclaimed: > > Just curious: if ELF is the default binary file format now, then why gcc > > still produces a.out file by default? > > > > Well, I know, I've changed the reason and the consequence, so it's a > > kind of joke :-) > > Well: > > It'd confuse people who aren't used to it. > > It didn't happen the last time a binary format change happened > (COFF on SysV?). > > It's still Assembler OUTput. > > The Union Of Pixies raised an objection claiming racism. As long as the gnomes stay out of the discussion, we ought to be safe. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "To make it absolutely clear: you stand on the wrong end of my blasters, so you better get lost before I start target practice!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message