Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 18:42:12 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Standardizing a BSD/ELF ABI... Message-ID: <199809011842.SAA02674@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Sep 1998 01:11:47 GMT." <199809020111.SAA11738@usr01.primenet.com>
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> As a point of interest... > > Is FreeBSD ELF binary compatible with NetBSD/OpenBSD/BSDI ELF? > > If not, should we consider making changes for the 3.0 release > to ensure as standard an ABI for BSD-based ELF systems as > possible? You will have to convince the NetBSD people to stop randomly changing their system calls first. John Birrell discussed this at some length while I was there last week, and it's about at the point where we are going to need an ABI shim for them. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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