Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 11:11:51 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> To: sos@freebsd.org Cc: David Langford <langfod@dihelix.com>, sos@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Native & Linux ELF support finally there... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960316105832.6344C-100000@knobel.gun.de> In-Reply-To: <199603110842.JAA18791@ra.dkuug.dk>
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On Mon, 11 Mar 1996 sos@freebsd.org wrote: > > Now a side note: for those of us with our heads in the closet are there > > any pointers to the wonders of why Elf exists? i.e. what makes it > > so great that I should bow down before it? > For FreeBSD bins ? nothing as fas as I can tell, It helped Linux > clean up their shared libs mess, we did that right in the first place :) > > (who was it that said think first then act :) > > Besides that there are a lot of possibilities in ELF like multible > text segments, specific debugging info etc etc. But none of > that gives us anything in the short run. > I see no immediate need for us to convert to ELF format, but it gives > us some interesting possibilities to be able to run them... ELF format has become "industry standard". Every Unix Vendor, who migrated his OS to SVR4, has done the final step to ELF format. HP, Silicon Graphics, Sun, ... When thinking about switching to ELF, couldn't it have the following advantages: - you show that FreeBSD follows industry standards - you would be able to use the newest binutils, so to say the newest GNU assembler, from what I've heard, that he has some advantages over the one we use now - you get the advantages, that ELF offers over COFF and a.out. -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<< "Ich bleibe bei der Aussage und trotze den Flames. :-)" Ulli Horlacher 02/96
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