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Date:      Mon, 25 May 1998 15:16:08 +1000 (EST)
From:      John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning
Message-ID:  <199805250516.PAA19101@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199805250356.UAA08934@austin.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "May 24, 98 08:56:54 pm"

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John Polstra wrote:
> Exactly.  Several people including myself have gone into ld with the
> idea of fixing the above bugs.  We all still have nightmares about the
> experience.  The bugs aren't just bugs, they're major design problems.
> That's why everybody who really scrutinizes ld decides it would be a
> lot easier to throw it out and switch to ELF.

Oh, so _that_ is the reason for switching to ELF. Chuckle. It solves
the old ld problems. Just a matter of perspective, I guess. 8-)

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
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