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Date:      Tue, 6 May 1997 19:04:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To:        Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Alpha questions..
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.970506190258.12814A-100000@zen.cypher.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970506151443.7199H-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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OLF is better suited for this, i think, since it includes OS 
identification information...linux ELF is not NetBSD ELF is not FreeBSD 
ELF but the binaries on intel all show up the same.


b3n


On Tue, 6 May 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 6 May 1997, Ben Black wrote:
> 
> > this actually reminds me of something i have been wondering about: is 
> > there any desire to switch from a.out to another binary format like OLF 
> > that is better suited to multi-architecture use.
> > 
> > 
> > b3n
> 
>   There is already work underway.  Someone has made an elf-kit for FreeBSD
> that allows you to build some bits of the system as elf bins.
> 
> Tom
> 



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