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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Beginning SPARC port
To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:56:48 +1100 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <19971211211621.19547@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Dec 11, 97 09:16:21 pm
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In some mail from Ollivier Robert, sie said:
> 
> According to Jordan K. Hubbard:
> > want to start with the compiler issues first then, eh?  Peter?  Soren?
> > John Polstra?  You might wish to step forward and shake hands with
> > Jason here, guys, because he's probably going to be the principal
> > motive force behind your toolchain upgrade in -current! :-)
> 
> Speaking of toolchain, it would be better IMO to use ELF for the SPARC port 
> (which may speed up the X86 ELF too :-)).
> 
> I don't think anyone wants to port our a.out hacks for shared libs to
> SPARC... :-)

But what about SunOS 4 compatibility ?