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To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 20:10:42 -0800
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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 :-)

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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