From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 29 07:22:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA29497 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 07:22:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA29448 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 07:21:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfieber@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA23686; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:17:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:17:23 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Chan Yiu Wah cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is the difference between aout & elf In-Reply-To: <199809290419.MAA09433@b1.hkstar.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Chan Yiu Wah wrote: > I am newbie to aout and elf format. I would like to know there differences. > Why FreeBSD is trying to go elf ? I don't want to create flame. I just > curious to know about that only. No Flame ,please. Section 12.2 in http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ is a starting point. Are there any good online references to the ELF format? If so, maybe they could be added to that section. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message