From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 20 16:11:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA14956 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:11:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA14947 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:10:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA21136; Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:01:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199708202301.QAA21136@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Please Help Me Understand dlopen()] To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:01:47 -0700 (MST) Cc: sef@kithrup.com, julian@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4524.872053748@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 19, 97 10:09:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.