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Date:      Tue, 13 May 1997 16:11:04 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>, Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Alpha questions.. 
Message-ID:  <199705132311.QAA25620@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Tue, 13 May 1997 13:21:32 -0700 (PDT) 
 Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> wrote:

 > 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.

...ECOFF can support shared libraries (Digital UNIX (formerly DEC OSF/1))
uses ECOFF.  Elf is just much saner, in general.

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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