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Date:      Tue, 21 Jan 1997 20:10:42 -0800
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation 
Message-ID:  <199701220410.UAA08396@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:49:42 -0800 
 John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> wrote:

 > I don't know what architectural problems you're referring to.  There
 > aren't any in the object format itself that seem severe to me.

...ELF has one _major_ losing, IMO... No tag that specifies the ABI.
You see "ELF for SPARC".  That's it.  That's a bummer.

But, that's really my only gripe with it :-)

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