From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 5 23:42:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA18945 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 23:42:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@haiti-73.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA18920 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 23:41:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA06654; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 23:43:33 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 23:43:32 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Stephen Hocking cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Elves wanted - apply within In-Reply-To: <199802060526.FAA29002@bne16unx215.workcover.qld.gov.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Stephen Hocking wrote: > > What are the plans for moving over to a completely ELF system? This > crosscompiling in order to use third party ELF libs is begining to wear a > little thin. I hope with the Sun and DEC Alpha ports of FreeBSD looming on the horizon, that "native" ELF support will eventually be the default. However, I think that you can build world with an ELF target to get a fully ELFable system, however a few things relying on an a.out kernel will break. > PS - Will we end up supprting DWARF? Or remain with stabs? I think both gdb and gcc have support for Dwarf 1 & 2, so there _should_ be support for it. If you really want to find out, you can always try, as it should be as simple as -gdwarf+, however, YMMV. Linux: The Microsoft Windows(tm) of the Unix(tm) world. - alex