Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 07:52:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Diekhans <markd@Grizzly.COM> To: lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the plans for ELF support? Message-ID: <199608091452.HAA22659@osprey.grizzly.com> In-Reply-To: <199608090817.AA074198640@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> (lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at)
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>What for? Is there something that the half-assed[1] GNU ELF support gains >you that the a.out libraries don't have (remember: we're not Linux, a.out >libs are really dynamically--read PIC--linked)? Mostly upgrade of GNU devsys pieces... But this question came up when I discovered a missing feature in the current dynamic loading that I was contemplating adding. I certainly wouldn't want to go though the amount of instability the Linux people did for a file format change.
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