Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:12:10 +1100 From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> Cc: sos@freebsd.org, David Langford <langfod@dihelix.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Native & Linux ELF support finally there... Message-ID: <199603162312.KAA18811@nemeton.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960316105832.6344C-100000@knobel.gun.de>
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On Sat, 16 Mar 1996 11:11:51 +0100 (MET) Andreas Klemm wrote: > ELF format has become "industry standard". Every Unix Vendor, who > migrated his OS to SVR4, has done the final step to ELF format. > HP, Silicon Graphics, Sun, ... HP-UX isn't SysVr4. Neither does did it use ELF last time I looked but instead (like us) an enhanced a.out format to support shared libraries. While ELF is nicer to consider migrating we'd need to be sure that the migration path is very smooth and that the maintenance overhead of supporting a.out for backward compatibility would not be burdensome. Giles
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