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Date:      Tue, 13 May 1997 13:21:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>, Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Alpha questions.. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.93.970513131908.408u-100000@gnostic.cynic.net>
In-Reply-To: <E0wPbPv-0007Dp-00@rover.village.org>

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On Thu, 8 May 1997, Warner Losh wrote:

> Yes.  Is it worth it?  I can't answer.  However, the new Alpha port
> will use whatever the current tools produce in a relatively bug-free
> way.  I'd personally like this to be ELF, but could see it being ECOFF
> if the ELF tools on the Alpha aren't up to snuff.

Currently the GNU tools targeted to the Alpha support ELF quite
well. Presumably the ECOFF support still works as well, but ECOFF
doesn't support shared libraries. NetBSD-current is using ELF on
the Alpha now.

I've set followups to freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org.

cjs

Curt Sampson    cjs@portal.ca		Info at http://www.portal.ca/
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