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Date:      Sat, 18 Nov 1995 14:28:36 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        grog@lemis.de
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: elm problem - "solved"
Message-ID:  <199511182128.OAA09626@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199511180801.JAA16694@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Nov 18, 95 09:01:44 am

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> > Why not use an aternate call table ala execution class for ABI support
> > for IBCS2, Linux, etc.?
> 
> How are you going to distinguish between the objects?  In the case of
> ibcs2 and Linux, the object files have different magic.  Not so in the
> case of old BSD objects.

By the crt0.o instruction differences for getenv(), and for BSDI, for
dlopen.

Yes, I know this is voodoo, but it will work.  The magic number just
got bigger is all.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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