From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 3 09:37:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA23441 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 09:37:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA22752 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 09:33:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA15099 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:33:04 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA12833 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:33:04 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id RAA20642 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 17:44:09 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601031644.RAA20642@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Demand loading (Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 17:44:09 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <7741.820667981@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 3, 96 03:19:41 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Can someone explain why we need ELF or its equivalent for this > > to be feasible? It supports any number of file sections. Stock a.out supports only text, data, bss (and symbols). > I don't think we do at all. I don't understand your antipathy against ELF. Why still fiddling with an ancient crock (a.out) when a more modern definition is already there? (I don't say this must happen tomorrow.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)