Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 11:42:12 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Demand loading (Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI) Message-ID: <199601031842.LAA28333@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199601031644.RAA20642@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <7741.820667981@time.cdrom.com> <199601031644.RAA20642@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J. Wunsch writes: > 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 think that part of my reason for avoiding ELF is becuase we don't need to move to yet another file format just as we are starting to support legacy applications and such. However, I don't think it would be bad if we actually had support for running ELF binaries as part of the system. It's just not something I'd like to see become the standard binary format. Nate
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