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 NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939
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