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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:12:58 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
Cc:        jdp@polstra.com, dg@root.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation
Message-ID:  <199701222312.QAA22344@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199701220410.UAA08396@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Jan 21, 97 08:10:42 pm

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>  > I don't know what architectural problems you're referring to.  There
>  > aren't any in the object format itself that seem severe to me.
> 
> ...ELF has one _major_ losing, IMO... No tag that specifies the ABI.
> You see "ELF for SPARC".  That's it.  That's a bummer.
> 
> But, that's really my only gripe with it :-)

That's actually supposed to be a feature: it is not permitted to have
more than one ABI.


					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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