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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.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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