From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 28 18:56:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA25873 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 18:56:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [209.118.174.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25860 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 18:56:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA01169; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 20:54:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 20:54:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: Alex cc: Kenneth Chiu , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth , John Birrell Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3 days to E-day In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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