Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:01:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: sef@kithrup.com, julian@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Please Help Me Understand dlopen()] Message-ID: <199708202301.QAA21136@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <4524.872053748@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 19, 97 10:09:08 pm
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> > Note that this would require using the GNU binutilies. > > And not much of a hardship since one of the major arguments in favor > of going to ELF is that it'd let us abandon some of our older, molding > items in the toolchain in favor of the more actively maintained GNU > code (which also dropped support for our a.out format some time > back). ;-) That is Sean's point, I think. To handle the transition piecemeal, as some seem to want to do (it;s a compromise position, but if a compromise is necessary to let some people remain backwards a bit longer so everyone can go foraward, so be it), would require adding the a.out support back into binutils. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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