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Subject: Re: elm problem - "solved"
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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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