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Date:      Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:51:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Kapil Chowksey <kchowksey@hns.com>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Converting ELF shared libs into a.out shared libs
Message-ID:  <199804171551.LAA15913@inssun5.hns.com>
In-Reply-To: <199804151008.DAA28074@austin.polstra.com>
References:  <199804150924.RAA01162@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> <199804151008.DAA28074@austin.polstra.com>

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On Wed, 15 April, John Polstra wrote:

> feasible, and I'm planning to write one.  When I was working through
> it, I remember I decided that an ELF->a.out converter would be less
> feasible.  But I can't remember the reason right now.  Sorry, I'm not

An ELF->a.out converter might actually be a neccessity for the sparc
port. Sparc OpenBoot can only boot from a.out images. There is one
existing for UltraLinux already.

-- 
Kapil Chowksey				Viva GNU !
kchowksey@hns.com

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