From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 1 21:37:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA04454 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 21:37:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles304.castles.com [208.214.167.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA04407 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 21:37:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00458; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 21:33:49 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809012133.VAA00458@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: David Dawes cc: Mike Smith , Terry Lambert , John Birrell , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Standardizing a BSD/ELF ABI... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Sep 1998 13:14:53 +1000." <19980902131453.C21469@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 21:33:47 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> 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. > > Is there compatibility for dynamically linked executables when using the > runtime host platform's native libraries? As far as I'm aware, the library ABI is still very close, yes. John Birrell (jb@freebsd.org) is definitely the guy to talk to about this though. -- \\ 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