Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 23:14:44 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, sef@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Standardizing a BSD/ELF ABI... Message-ID: <199809012314.XAA01153@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Sep 1998 15:40:24 %2B0930." <19980902154024.E606@freebie.lemis.com>
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> >> 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. > > What about BSDI? Presumably they've been stable for a while. Having > those two compatible would also be an incentive for the NetBSD people. Indeed. Anyone here doing anything with BSD/OS these days? Sean, you keep labelling yourself as listening to 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
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