Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 20:54:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: Kenneth Chiu <chiuk@cs.indiana.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3 days to E-day Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808282051520.487-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808281822280.243-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Alex wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Kenneth Chiu wrote: > [..] > > I'm thinking about getting Motif, but am concerned about being > > dependent on XIG for a 3.0 version. First, how hard would it be > > to write a program to convert a.out to ELF? Is it just a matter > > of converting the relocation table, symbol table, and string table? > > Or will the 3.0 loader be able to mix and match ELF and a.out? > > If you stick with static libs, I think it's purely a matter of removing > the prepended underscore. This might be the way to go until XiG releases > a true ELF version. Are you sure? I thought that if you were linking up a elf executeable, you'd have to use 100% pure elf libs (and vice versa), and no mixing allowed. I know about the underscore business, but it's a different linker extirely, isn't it? I also thought that the run time linker (ld.so) only knew about one flavor, so you needed an elf one, and an aout one, and no mixing. Is this untrue? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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