From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 1 18:46:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10397 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 18:46:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10392 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 18:46:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02674; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 18:42:12 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199809011842.SAA02674@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Terry Lambert cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Standardizing a BSD/ELF ABI... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Sep 1998 01:11:47 GMT." <199809020111.SAA11738@usr01.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 18:42:12 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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