From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 9 01:21:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA22156 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 01:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.siemens.at (proxy.siemens.at [192.138.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA22146 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 01:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol1.gud.siemens.co.at (sol-f.gud.siemens-austria) by proxy.siemens.at with SMTP id AA13390 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Fri, 9 Aug 1996 10:20:11 +0200 Received: from ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at by sol1.gud.siemens.co.at with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7 for ) id m0uomnj-00024eC; Fri, 9 Aug 96 10:20 MET DST Received: by ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (1.37.109.16/1.37) id AA074198640; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 10:17:20 +0200 From: "Hr.Ladavac" Message-Id: <199608090817.AA074198640@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Subject: Re: What are the plans for ELF support? To: markd@Grizzly.COM (Mark Diekhans) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 10:17:20 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199608090430.VAA18204@osprey.grizzly.com> from "Mark Diekhans" at Aug 8, 96 09:30:43 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk E-mail message from Mark Diekhans contained: > > > > Dear FreeBSD Deities, > > What are the plans for moving forward with ELF support in FreeBSD? That is, > will the current a.out format become legacy and all standard libraries be > shipped in ELF? What for? Is there something that the half-assed[1] GNU ELF support gains you that the a.out libraries don't have (remember: we're not Linux, a.out libs are really dynamically--read PIC--linked)? > > Enquiring minds want to know > Likewise. /Marino P.S. -current can execute (GNU|Linux) ELF bins and libs. [1] The second half is much fabled DWARF which nobody seems to use.